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'Five' years ago° Theresa Smith .that ` many older women don.%t
*state working: • in a 'London, want tO knovy, they take the
Ontario, medical laboraturr ostrieh approach of closing their
**there Pap smears are studied for eyes and hoping it will go
'the detection gf cancer. The away.'"
very idea that she might at that , The differences in attitude
moment have cancer herself towards the Pap test, she
never crossed -her. mind, . believes, is a result of recent
Through her scientifictraining intensive women education
Theresa knew all about the Pap programs to inform them about
„test? how the metho y was ran oderrn cancer detection
developed, the principle on methods,
which •it: works, the startling "Cancer. won't go away," she
4acc1,raey of it -yet she' had never said, "and the longer it stays.
bothered 'to have a smear. taken, undetected, the more likely it is
Only by chance did she decide to be fatal. But I am living proof
to have the test. That decision that.cancer can be beaten if it is
Hospital says that the Pap testas
a .cancer detection method has
saved thousands of lives, yet
there are still° many women who
are reluctant to take it.
"Although I must say that.
this is rapidly changing," said
Marks. "As more and more
•hospitals carry out regular , Pap
tests Qn all fejmal 'patients and
Cytology clinics become
established in various
communities across the
Province, the,reduction- , of
cancer in these,sites should be
noticably reduced in the next
few years, but this will not
er life. 1 detected at an early stage.'' a 'ha -pen without the cooperation
.aa `.At that' time 'Mrs '' Smith of Robert Marks, Chief` oft
at
•London, Ontario, was a Cytologist St. Joseph's ,Theresa Smith has a clean bill
twenty-five year old medical -
technologist at St. Joseph's
Hospital in ' London, and the
mother of three children.
"There was a standing joke
amongst. the staff about. not
forgetting to have a Pap test,"
said Theresa. "It .was like the
proverbial joke about the
mechanic who fixes cars for
everybody else but lets his own
fall apart. I had given birth to
my. third ,child about that time
so I 'decided I should maybe..
have a smear taken since I' had
missed my six week post -partum •
'check up.'.' •
The technologist in the
cytology department, alriend of
Theresa's, found the smear to be
suspect and immediately
reported it to her, doctor. A
biopsy followed. .
"It glowed that • I had a
>• buialigriant ..tumor confined to
_
-spot--of- the -cervix;"- -said-
Theresa, "and before, I realized.
the significance of the finding I
was hospitalized."
Five years ago . the, Pap test
was done principally on women -
over thirty. It is a simple test 'tor
detecting changesin,_the cells of
the cervix, or :when cancer is at
an• early and -easily curable stage.
Since Theresa's ,case, medical
authorities advise that all women
twenty-five and over should have
a Pap .,test• every two years.
Theresa . completely 'endorses the
progiamC "I _rvever would have
hada smear taken if I had' not
been working in the cytology
department because I' had no
' symptoms. And yet it is so
'simple and it can save so much
' For the 'next six weeks she.
underwent radium and cobalt
treatment' , 'at the Victoria
Hospital in London: Normally
the, procedure in such cases is a
hysterectomy, but in the
operating room the doctors
found microscopic spreading of
the cancer to surrounding tissues
and decided radiation was better
treatment.
"I was told that there was an
awful rush to the Cytology
Department by the nurses and
medical technicians for Pap
• smears when they heard of my
case. I guess I wasn't 'the only
delinquent one.
Theresa believes that younger
women are more receptive to
-..having---regular--paper-tests- - tharr
perhaps are older women...
"I think younger women want
' toknow if they have something
wrong with them and want to
get it cleared up, while it seems
of health from her doctor, but
she has no intention of
discontinuing -her biyearly Pap
tests.
"When you are .confronted
with cancer, _when you are told
that it is :inside you, it is a
traumatic experience. e, .But
knowing that research has
moved rapidly ahead so that
cancer can now: be `detected
early, controlled, and in. many
eases cured, it gives- you an
Ability Fund
u n d a n ted feeling . of beat., cancer. Be generous .when
encouragement. I'm sure that yoltr Cancer `Society canvasser
one day they will also learr>ow
to eradicate the disease --
coinPi$ely.
The.- fundi' ` for cancer
prevention, research and service
to .patients programs are raised
during" Cancer Society's annnall
campaign. This .year, the .Ontiar o
Division of the Canadian 'Cancer
Society must . raise $3•,200,000,
!very dallar:you.donate-helps-to
at' $,3iL59
'It was the seventh year •for $2,000. `Poi.
the Ability-, Furi - (Nardi :of. ---amount
Dimes) campaign in Goderiich,.
reported Mrs. Lee t MbCaiuri,
chief marching mother, ' and it
must have been "lucky seven"
for the organizers.
The. objective 'for 1970 was
t donations' to date
18.59,.
"Everyone was so
enthusiastic," Mrs. 'McCallum
said. "Money is still coming in.
People are to be commended for
their generous response."
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A five minute Pap test savedTheresa Smith's life. Working as a
medical technologist in. ttfe Cytology department of :St.
Joseph's Hospital, London, Ontario, where her smear was
foiiind to be suspect, Theresa. looks at the report that brought
her immediate medical treatment. Behind her on closed circuit
television attached • to a microscope, is the cancerous cell that
technologist detected in her Pap smear.
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