Essays on Pap Smear

Literature Review:

Factors and predictors of persistent lesion (positive hr-HPV DNA test or abnormal cytology) after treatment of high grade cervical intraepithelial Neoplasia with large loop excision of transformation zone (LLETZ) {Author Name} {Institution Affiliation}

Introduction

The Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection is the primary factor that increases the risk of the cervical cancer development and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) in the uterine cervix (Soderlund-Strand et al., 2014). Approximately 150 diverse types of HPV have been discovered, and most of them are carcinogenic. Persistent infections of high-risk HPV must lead to the development of high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN 2 and 3), and ...

Cervix is also called the neck of the womb. Cervical cancer is the third most common cancer affecting women, after breast and ovarian cancer (Saslow et al., 2012). It progresses slowly over the years. Cervical cell dysplasia is an early signs of cervical cancer. Though, not all cervical cell dysplasia terminates in cancer, it is still an important screening tool. Pap smear can detect cervical dysplasia and enables treatment of the condition at an early stage, even before it progresses to cancer. While dysplasia is a non-malignant condition, cervical cancer is a malignant disease that originates from cervical cancer ...

Study question/ objective

Gonorrhea is a contagious disease that is often transmitted from one individual to the other one through sexual contact. It is one of the commonest sexually transmitted infections that affect young individuals of between ages 15 years to 24 years since the majority of them do not understand how well to take care of themselves (Kidd & Workowski, 2015). As such, it is vital that a program be developed with the intentions of ensuring that this portion of the populace can receive the utmost care which will satisfactorily address this problem. The purpose of this program, therefore, will be to ...