Any doctor should be able to examine a woman’s breasts looking for lumps and at the same time teach her the technique of self-examination. An internal examination and a Pap smear can be taken.
For most cancers, the earlier they are detected, the better the results of treatment.
This applies to the commonest cancers in women and the means of early detection are available. Mahy women are either unaware of the available facilities or are just not motivated to use them.
Many women suffer discomfort in their bladder. It is usually called cystitis.
Yet it may not be the bladder itself which is involved in this most common of urinary problems.
The kidneys are on the back wall of the abdomen, just below the ribs, and lie one on either side.
They have several related functions concerned with the excretion of waste products and with the salt and water balance in the body. As blood flows through the filters of the kidney, a fluid is collected. As this fluid passes along the collecting tubule in the body of the kidney, some substances are reabsorbed and others are excreted into it.
The resulting fluid, urine, then leaves the kidney by a thin tube, the ureter, and flows down into the bladder, where the urine is stored until passed to the outside through another tube, the urethra.
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