You should have a colonoscopy every 10 years starting at age 50. Alternatively, you may get a flexible sigmoidoscopy every five years, a double-contrast barium enema every five years or a CT colonography (virtual colonoscopy) every five years. However, a colonoscopy will be needed if any of those results are positive.
Jena Pincott explains that even after a mother gives birth, her babyâs cells remain inside her body â and work tiny wonders. In an excerpt from her book Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies?, Pincott explains that pregnancy is really only the beginning for mother and baby cell-sharing.
When a woman is exposed to genital human papillomavirus (HPV), her immune system usually prevents the virus from doing serious harm. But in a small number of women, the virus survives for years.Eventually, the virus can lead to the conversion of normal cells on the surface of the cervix into cancerous cells.hen a woman is exposed to genital human papillomavirus (HPV), her immune system usually prevents the virus from doing serious harm. But in a small number of women, the virus survives for years.