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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1988

TARGETTED SCREENING FOR CERVICAL CANCER PREFERRED

TARGETTED

SCREENING OF WOMEN

WITH INCREASED

TO A SCREENING CONTRACTING CERVICAL CANCER WAS PREFERRED

AND WELFARE, THE FOR ALL WOMEN, THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH CHAMBERS, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

RISK OF PROGRAMM HON JOHN

CHAMBERS AT THE SERVICES AND

REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY DR THE HON HENRIETTA IP, MR SAID THAT SMEAR SCREENING FOR CERVICAL CANCER WAS CARRIED OUT FAMILY PLANNING CLINICS OF THE GOVERNMENT FAMILY HEALTH THE HONG KONG FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION.

HE SAID SMEAR SCREENING

PLACE ALSO TOOK

IN SOCIAL HYGIENE GOVERNMENT, CLINICS IN

CLINICS, GYNAECO-LOGICAL SUBVENTED AND PRIVATE HOSPITALS.

AND

ANTE-NATAL

"THE PAP SMEAR TEST IS NOW WIDELY AVAILABLE AS A ROUTINE OR WHEN MEDICALLY REQUIRED," HE SAID.

CHECK

1983, A THREE-YEAR BY THE DEPARTMENT OF OF PATHOLOGY OF THE SOCIETY AND THE THE GOVERNMENT'S

MR CHAMBERS POINTED OUT THAT FROM 1980 TO PILOT STUDY ON ROUTINE SCREENING ORGANISED OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY, AND THE DEPARTMENT UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, THE HONG KONG ANTI-CANCER

WAS DEPARTMENT

CONDUCTED AT HEALTH MEDICAL AND MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CENTRES.

WERE FOUND TO

A TOTAL OF 18,013 SMEARS WERE EXAMINED AND 130 BE ABNORMAL. THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CERVICAL CANCERS DETECTED WAS 23 THE PICK UP RATE WAS THEREFORE ONLY 1.27 PER THOUSAND.

"THIS WAS CONSIDERED TO BE PROGRAMME FOR ALL WOMEN, HE SAID.

TARGETTED

***

SCREENING

AND

Тоо LOW TO JUSTIFY A

SCREENING

INCREASED

RISK OF

WITH

OF WOMEN CONTRACTING CERVICAL CANCER WAS THEREFORE PREFERRED.

FREE BOOKLET ON HEALTH ASPECTS OF VDU'S

OPERATION OF

ADVERSE

COMPUTER EFFECTS ΤΟ WORKING

CURRENT MEDICAL OPINION HOLDS THAT THE VISUAL DISPLAY UNITS IS SAFE AND IS UNLIKELY TO HAVE ON OPERATORS' HEALTH, PROVIDED THAT APPROPRIATE ATTENTION CONDITIONS AND SUITABLE REST PERIODS ARE GIVEN.

EDUCATION AND MANPOWER, TO A QUESTION BY THE

HON

THIS WAS STATED BY THE SECRETARY FOR THE HON DOMINIC WONG SHING-WAH, IN REPLY TAM YIU-CHUNG IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

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