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HPV event set Oct. 27
By Chantaé Avalon Arrington
Issue date: 10/20/06 Section: Pulse
Originally published: 10/19/06 at 8:47 PM CSTLast update: 10/19/06 at 8:47 PM CST
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A workshop on the importance of a pap smear will be from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 27 in the Fiesta Room of Loftin Student Center.
The workshop is sponsored by Peer Educators and the student assistance program in collaboration with the Academy for Educational Development's Women Reaching Out Against Cervical Cancer.
The academy is a non- profit group headquartered in Washington, D.C., and the program is a social marketing and health communication effort to educate Hispanic women about cervical cancer.
The death rate from cervical cancer is 40 percent higher among Hispanic women than among other groups, according to the American Cancer Society.
"Our goal as Peer Educators is to make students aware and give different suggestions to stay healthy," Counselor Dawn McFadden, adviser to Peer Educators, said Monday.
The human papilloma virus, commonly known as HPV, is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections that affects both men and women.
At least 80 percent of women will be exposed to it, according to an April 24 Newsweek article.
HPV usually causes no symptoms and can go undetected if a woman does not have a yearly pap smear to determine an abnormality that could lead to cervical cancer. If symptoms do occur, some people get genital warts in a cauliflower shape that can be medically treated, according to the Centers for Disease Control at the Web site http://www.cdc.gov.
Females 18 to 25 usually don't get a pap test because they think it's for older women, McFadden said.
In the U.S., women who are diagnosed with cervical center usually have not had a pap smear in the last five years or have never had one.
TV commercials by pharmaceuticals manufacturer Merck and Co. are now advertising the importance of an annual pap smear test.
"As the commercial said, 'tell someone you love,'" McFadden said.
The workshop is sponsored by Peer Educators and the student assistance program in collaboration with the Academy for Educational Development's Women Reaching Out Against Cervical Cancer.
The academy is a non- profit group headquartered in Washington, D.C., and the program is a social marketing and health communication effort to educate Hispanic women about cervical cancer.
The death rate from cervical cancer is 40 percent higher among Hispanic women than among other groups, according to the American Cancer Society.
"Our goal as Peer Educators is to make students aware and give different suggestions to stay healthy," Counselor Dawn McFadden, adviser to Peer Educators, said Monday.
The human papilloma virus, commonly known as HPV, is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections that affects both men and women.
At least 80 percent of women will be exposed to it, according to an April 24 Newsweek article.
HPV usually causes no symptoms and can go undetected if a woman does not have a yearly pap smear to determine an abnormality that could lead to cervical cancer. If symptoms do occur, some people get genital warts in a cauliflower shape that can be medically treated, according to the Centers for Disease Control at the Web site http://www.cdc.gov.
Females 18 to 25 usually don't get a pap test because they think it's for older women, McFadden said.
In the U.S., women who are diagnosed with cervical center usually have not had a pap smear in the last five years or have never had one.
TV commercials by pharmaceuticals manufacturer Merck and Co. are now advertising the importance of an annual pap smear test.
"As the commercial said, 'tell someone you love,'" McFadden said.
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