Welcome to Natural MD Radio, your place to hear the whole truth on health and medicine for women and children and get the tools you need to take back your health naturally starting now. I'm Dr. Aviva Ram at Natural MD radio and it's such a pleasure to have you back today

We're going to continue a conversation that we started in episodes 102 and 103 talking about cervical health. If you've been given an HPV diagnosis or you've been told

that you have pre-cancerous cervical changes or cervical dysplasia, there's a good chance you're freaking out.

It's a scary thing to hear and often the information isn't delivered with the whole picture,

namely that most H.P. V infections clear up on their own,

and even most pre-cancer lesions resolve spontaneously with infinissimal risk

that they will progress to cervical cancer.

That said, cervical cancer does affect about 12,000 women in the United States each year

and takes the lives of just over 4,000.

Now, most of these cases of cervical cancer

are in older women who had not had proper PAP

or HPV testing to detect early changes so these progress to cancer.

But each year hundreds of thousands of women will receive a diagnosis if you will

that they have had a bad PAP or they're positive for HPV.

Now in the recent episodes of Natural MD radio and the corresponding blogs,

which I give you as the transcript, if you will will I gave you all the details you need to

understand what HPV is and how to make sense of test results if you go over to

Aviva Rame dot com forward slash 104, you'll find all the

transcript in the form of a blog for today's episode as well as links back to those previous episodes if you're still a little

uncertain about what HPV is or what PAPS mere results mean or if you're just tuning in today as your first episode,

welcome to Natural MD radio.

You can have a look back or a listen back at those articles

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