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key concepts in treatment of cervical pathologies
integrative therapeutics

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Key concepts in treatment of cervical pathologies

• Improve overall digestion and elimination.

• Address history of immunosuppressive therapy and treat with appropriate detoxification and immunoaugmentive therapies.

• Improve dietary habits.

• Address mental/emotional stressors and obstacles to cure.

• Remember, Pap smears are screening tests, not diagnostic tests. Colposcopy and biopsy is the definitive diagnostic work-up; in some cases, cone biopsy and hysteroscopy is used.

• Initial diagnosis and management requires history, physical, and screening Pap smear.

• If the Pap smear is normal but the cervix is grossly abnormal and the patient has other risk factors, continue the work-up; repeat the Pap in either one to three months, depending on your clinical judgment. Consider the possibility of a colposcopy and biopsy if there is a discrepancy between what you see and the Pap report in situations of one or more risk factors.

• Use only a lab that uses the Bethesda-Maryland Classification System.

• Cervical Dysplasia and Carcinoma are considered sexually transmitted diseases - advise appropriately.

• Patient should avoid intercourse during span of Escharotic treatment.

• Degree of treatment is based on degree of pathology. Become familiar with conventional wisdom regarding diagnostic work-up and follow-up. Know when conventional treatment is appropriate.

• Reduce risk factors: multiple partners, sexual exposure to men who have HPV, sexual exposure to men sexually exposed to women with Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia (CIN), early age at first intercourse.

• Reduce co-factors of disease process: smoking, poor diet, oral contraceptive use, chronic cervicitis, Herpes virus infection, immune suppression, environmental carcinogens exposure.

See entry on Condylomas-Cervical, Vaginal, Vulvar; (also contains diagnosis, treatment, and prevention for partners).

The following protocols have been researched in the Journal of Naturopathic Medicine 1991; 2:6-10 and Townsend Letter, January 1991.
(Hudson)


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