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The Skeptics Guide #886 - Jul 2 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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I Had an Abortion, but I Was Having an Abnormal Pap.

I was not having an abortion, though. I was having a d and c for also pathology purposes. It's a scraping of the endometrial lining of your uterus to to look and see if there's any abnormality. All of this came after an abnormal pap. Oftentimes when they come back abnormal, the problem is squamis tissue. Mine came back abnormal in my glandular tissue which is more disconcerting because it happens farther up inside the servix. There's kind of no dividing line there. And it came back something called adino carsonoma in sicu, which sounds really scary, for good reason. The operative words here are in sic

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