[Tiffannie]

My Doctor doesn't even tell you whats going on, like you said scare tactics. Even after I refused the burning and/or freezeing of my cervix. So while he was down there in that region of mine, he starts the freezeing process w/o consent. I was informed that I signed a consent when I first started to see him as a Doctor in which gave him permission to do what he felt needed to be done. In other words, he slipped the tube of freezing agents into my region. Basicly what I am saying is Doctors don't really explains things or give you a chance to research it on the net or Lybrarie. Is babsicly what I am saying. Thank you for your time.


The original article stated in fact "Cervical dysplasia does not cause symptoms;" This is not factually correct. Some cases of dysplasia do cause symptoms.

"…about 10% [of mild dysplasia cases] progress to moderate or severe dysplasia within 2–4 years…Less than 50% of cases of severe dysplasia progress to invasive carcinoma…" WHO

This quote is taken out of context: the context should be "LEFT UNTREATED,..."

The facts are that most sexuay active adults will be exposed, either directly or indirectly to one or more strains of HPV during their lifetime. If HPV was the cause of cervical cancer, there would be several hundreds of thousands of cases diagnosed each year, would there not? I know what most of the literature says--but just consider that facts before allowing a doctor to unneccessarily amputate the end of your cervix.

The term pre-cancerous is very misleading--one could equally argue that having breasts is a "pre-cancerous" condition.

Too many women are being mislead by doctors using scare tactics and they need to be informed before consenting to any surgical proceedure.

[piperpilot]

Tiffanie,

I would suggest you speak to an attorney ASAP and report your doctor to the state medical board.

[KristenE]

WHY WHY WHY wouldn't you want to get rid of pre-cancerous cells????? It is a fact that when you have mild dysplasia, they often turn into moderate, then severe (WHICH I HAVE) then they have a 50% chance of turning into cervical carcinoma, and invasive cancer. I don't understand how you could just go along in life knowing that you have cells on your cervix that could be turning into cancer and you do nothing about it. That is very sad for you. I value my life and want to be there for my children, so I am making SURE to get rid of the severe dysplasia (my appt is on Monday) because I am not taking ANY chances with my life. That is the whole reason for getting regular papsmears. You know, your doctor knows a lot more about it than you do.

[piperpilot]

If you have "Moderate" and/or "Severe" dysplasia, then you should have it treated by removal or ablation. Both of these catagories contain "high-grade" lesions which as you stated, have a significant chance of invading the stroma. This is much different from "mild dysplasia" (low-grade lesion)(pathologically confirmed) which regresses 90% of the time on it's own.

As for your comment about my doctor knowing more about than I do is factually incorrect. I am a scientist; I develop methods for testing detecting pathogens. Most gynecologist are looking for treatment modalities that protect themselves as well as the patient, however they will almost always error on the side of caution for their own self-preservation (this means they don't want to get sued and they also like to bill insurance companies for proceedures whether or not they are completely neccessary).

The most current data suggests that low-grade lesions (mild dysplasia) should be considered as a seperate illness (because they are so frequent and easily healed by the body's immune system) apart from other high-grade lesions which do progress. But your friend or relative had Mild Dysplasia and it progressed to cancer? No--not likely--a more likely scenario was that during the colposcopy, the doctor missed a concurrently existing High-grade lesion which was not biopsied--this was the source of the cancer.

I have read more abstracts on this topic than you can ever imagine. My point is that ultimately it's your body. If you don't care enough to read the pathologist report from your colposcopy and from your pap smear and do your own research, your doctor will perform surgery when it may not be at all necessary.

I wish luck with your proceedure.

God Bless,

--PiperPilot

[haditonce]

Did the freezing method work for you? I and my sister both had the lazer treatment and it worked for us my daughter had the leep pro. and that did not work the first time for her.