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Cervical Screening in Older Women; Hepatitis E in Nepal; Enlarged Prostate; Significance

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Cervical screening in older women has hit the headlines, but reports have not explained whether these women being diagnosed after 65 have attended screening. Concerns about an outbreak of Hepatitis E in Nepal that could kill pregnant women; A new technique being trialled in the UK to treat enlarged prostate; and Dr Margaret McCartney on statistical significance.

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Greg Jenna and good news, Your Dead to Me is back for a new series. Here we go. Yes, we'll explore Emperor Nero's notorious reign with Professor Marybeard and Patton Oswald. I would not want my daughter having the remote control, not alone an empire. We'll dissect the decadent life of Philippe Duke-Dor-Leon with Tom Allen. I've often tried to pretend I'm an aristocrat and being very quickly knocked down. And there'll be so much more with comedians like Olga Koch, Mike Mosniak and Rihalina. I'm excited. You're dead to me, the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Listen first on BBC Sounds. Hello, thank you for listening to this edition of Inside Health. I hope you enjoy it. Could a little-known virus be about to wreak havoc in the aftermath of the Nepalese earthquake?

0:43.1

A group of world experts certainly believe so, and one of them joins me to explain what can be done to protect the most vulnerable group, pregnant women.

0:52.8

We continue our series on statistical terminology with Professor Carl Hennigan and Dr Margaret

0:58.3

McCartney explaining significance and a new approach to prostate problems.

1:03.8

If, like many older men, you're a slave to your bladder, then this should be music to your ears.

1:10.6

He pees like a horse, literally.

1:13.9

It's beautiful.

1:15.4

And to see him so much happier that when we go out,

1:19.2

we haven't got to worry about every toilet, and that's all gone.

1:24.2

All will be revealed a little later.

1:26.8

But first, cervical cancer, which has been making

1:29.7

the headlines following the publication of research revealing that 20% of new diagnoses,

1:35.5

and half of all deaths from the disease, are in women too old to be included in the cervical

1:40.7

cancer screening program, the upper limit for routine smear tests being 65.

1:46.3

But the reports in the media haven't answered the most obvious question

1:50.2

for us here at Inside Health.

1:52.3

Who are these women?

1:53.8

Have they, for instance, had regular smears

1:56.2

and attended for screening when they were supposed to?

1:59.4

Julieta Patnick is director of NHS cancer screening programmes.

2:03.3

Generally, we don't think so.

2:05.0

A woman who's been screened regularly and not had an abnormal result in the last 10 years,

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