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When Your Doctor Says "LEEP"

From Tracee Cornforth, About.com GuideOctober 13, 2009

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If your doctor has told you that you need to have a LEEP procedure, it's because your annual Pap smear indicated the presence of abnormal cervical cells, or cervical dysplasia. While the loop electrosurgical excision procedure, or LEEP procedure, may make you wonder if your doctor wants you to jump. The LEEP procedure has nothing to do with jumping. The LEEP procedure is one of several procedures your doctor has available to help diagnose and treat abnormal cervical cells. Find out what happens during the LEEP procedure.

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November 1, 2009 at 7:44 pm
(1) Lisa :

DO NOT let your doctor convince you that you require LEEP surgery unless your colposcopy results indicate HIGH-GRADE lesion(s). Doctors are too frequently jumping to this radical treatment because they make big money. Most HPV infections (which cause abnormal pap results) are transient; your body will develop immune response and take care of it without LEEP. Demand to read your test records–it will say high-grade or low-grade. Cervical cancer develops over many years 10-15, there should never be any rush to treat low-grade squamous cell lesion. And don’t believe anything this Tracy Cornforth writes–she is a fraud!

November 5, 2011 at 6:58 pm
(2) a2037839 :

I’ve said that least 2037839 times. The problem this like that is they are just too compilcated for the average bird, if you know what I mean

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