Michael Douglas' Throat Cancer Caused By Oral Sex, Not Smoking Or Drinking

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

I was also surprised to learn that after 30, if a woman has had 5 normal paps and negative HPV tests, she can choose not to have a Pap smear for years!

Well you can always choose not to have one .. but I know what you're saying.

I believe it was fairly recently that reports/articles/research has come out indicating that women only need to have a pap once every 2 or 3 years, rather than every year.

But maybe that's been the case for a while and I only recently heard this...?

[33girl]

Originally Posted by honeychile

While I appreciate Michael Douglas's candor, I can't help but wonder how Catherine Zeta Jones feels about this revelation.

Oh please. He's twice her age and was a Hollywood star in the 1970s and 1980s. I'm sure she didn't think she was his first and only.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

Well you can always choose not to have one .. but I know what you're saying.

I believe it was fairly recently that reports/articles/research has come out indicating that women only need to have a pap once every 2 or 3 years, rather than every year.

But maybe that's been the case for a while and I only recently heard this...?

They keep saying all this stuff can be done at longer-apart intervals and my response is "I'll stick with yearly, thanks." I've gone 2 years without a dental appointment and now I'm in the midst of a root canal. Never again. So you can imagine how I feel about anything down under.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by 33girl

They keep saying all this stuff can be done at longer-apart intervals and my response is "I'll stick with yearly, thanks." I've gone 2 years without a dental appointment and now I'm in the midst of a root canal. Never again. So you can imagine how I feel about anything down under.

I went 6 years without a cleaning.. end of college, then graduated and didn't have health insurance, then got a job and was traveling all the time (and in all that time I lived in 3 different states) - and suddenly it was more than half a decade later and I realized I really needed to go to the dentist.

Fortunately, I only needed a deep cleaning. It was still pretty terrible, though. As you said, never again.

And I'm definitely still going for a yearly gyno exam.. no point in taking a chance!

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

And I'm definitely still going for a yearly gyno exam.. no point in taking a chance!

Me too! I'm just flabbergasted that anyone would go for it...

[Sciencewoman]

TMI on the "not going to the dentist" revelations....

[AnchorAlum]

Originally Posted by Sister Havana

I had the same thought.

Make that three of us. I'd have to hit me a man who blabbed that much.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

Me too! I'm just flabbergasted that anyone would go for it...

The technology has actually changed in the last decade or so (with the introduction of ThinPrep), and with it, the ACOG recommendation for yearly paps.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Oh please. He's twice her age and was a Hollywood star in the 1970s and 1980s. I'm sure she didn't think she was his first and only.

I didn't think she was. I did, however, wonder how Catherine Zeta Jones would feel about people thinking that she gave it to her husband. Obviously, she didn't want to be considered the source of her husband's cancer:
Barbara Walters: Michael Douglas' Wife Not Source of Virus


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