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guidelines (Integrative Therapeutics)
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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