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Female condom one step closer to availability in United States
ROCKVILLE, Md. — Marketing of female condoms should be allowed in the United States if the maker provides further information supporting its claims of effectiveness, a federal advisory panel said Friday.
The Associated Press
The panel's recommendation to the Food and Drug Administration is not binding, but the agency usually follows its own rules. Friday's vote was unanimous.
The FDA staff and the 14 experts on the panel indicated they were troubled by some aspects of the company's application. Specifically, they said the company's data did not support claims that the condom prevents the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and did not provide enough statistical basis for calculating effectiveness in preventing pregnancy.
But the company said afterward that studies required by the panel should be finished by summer and that if nothing goes wrong, the condoms could appear on store shelves by fall or the end of the year. They would be available without prescriptions.
"We don't see this as a big delay," said Mary Ann Leeper, who heads the product's development for its U.S. manufacturer, Wisconsin Pharmacal Co.
Earlier, during a daylong hearing,
women's advocates pleaded for government approval of the female version of the condom, saying it would give women control they need to protect against pregnancy and disease.
The condoms, which would sell for $2.25 each, already have been approved for use in Switzerland and France and England later this year.
"It's been known that contrapetties that are under the use of women are more effective because they are used," said Mary Guinan, a physician from the federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.
Guinan said the device would for the first time give women the power to protect themselves against sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS.
"The women who are most at risk do not have the power to protect themselves," she said. "They do not have the power to negotiate condom use by men."
"I think about what this represents to me," she told the panel.
Concha Orozco, who spoke for a Hispanic health organization agreed.
Although the panel's job was to decide whether to recommend the device as safe and effective, others were considering other possible problem: its acceptance.
Orozo told the panel that the questions people wanted answered were:
Female condom
U.S. Food and Drug
U. S. Food and Drug Administration approval is pending for a female condom. The vaginal pouch is designed to guard against sexually transmitted diseases and to prevent conception.
Selected facts
Dimensions
Researchers conducting clinical studies have found that:
The chance of women being exposed to semen is 3% , compared to 11.6% with male condoms.
- Tear rates were less than 1%, compared to 1-14% in studies of male condoms.
6 1/2 inches long
3 inches wide
2-inch diameter
inner ring
2 3/4-inch diameter
outer ring
There have been no significant adverse reactions reported in
30,000 uses by 1,700 couples.
No damage to the vaginal canal or change in natural bacteria was found.
HIV (AIDS) and hepatitis B do not penetrate it.
"How is it going to enhance my pleasure? How is it not going to enhance my pleasure?"
Some dislike it, find the outer ring that hangs outside the body to be cumbersome.
The device is intended for one-time use, but Soupourner said even that need be met.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune, Wisconsin Pharmacal Co.
"Are we talking about one night of
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sex or one ejaculation?" she said
The female condom is an adaptation of the one for men. It is a seven-inch tube with flexible rings at both ends. The inner ring fits behind the woman's pubic bone, and the outer ring remains outside her body.
Testicular cancer diagnoses rise at KU
By Katherine Manweiler Kansan staff writer
Testicular cancer is common and curable, said Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
Testicular cancer, Yockey said, has been the most common type of cancer diagnosed at Watkins in the past five years. Three cases have been diagnosed at Watkins in the past 18 months.
*Very few things that are that serious are that curable. "he said.*
Testicular cancer is always treatable, and the cure rates exceed 90 per cent.
Nationally, testicular cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer in
men 20 to 40 years old. Lymphoma, cancer of the lymph system, is the most common.
*No one causes nor can anyone prevent tunicular cancer," he said.
Yockey said monthly self-examinations until age 60 were crucial for the detection of cancer.
According to a survey last semester of KU freshmen, the top health risk for freshman men was that 83 percent were monthly testicular self-examinations.
"A tumor in the testicle feels like a
Yockey said most cases of testicular cancer were diagnosed after the cancer had spread to other parts of the body.
raisin or a piece of gravel half-imbedded in the testicle, he said. "Testicles should be smooth. If someone feels a bump, they need immediate examination.
One KU student diagnosed with testicular cancer went to Watkins for a cough, and a chest X-ray revealed that cancer had spread to his lungs, Yockey said. The student underwent surgery and chemotherapy and became free of cancer.
Blood tests can detect the spread of the cancer, he said.
A representative for the American
Cancer Society in D aver said the first step in treatment of all types of testicular cancer was the surgical removal of the affected testicle and all adjoining tubes.
But Yockey said the four types of testicular cancer required different treatments. Treatment possibilities include radiation, chemotherapy and surgery.
Based on cell types, testicular cancers vary in growth rate, responses to treatment and patterns of metastasis, and cells spread to other parts of the body.
The fastest-growing form of testicular cancer, embryonal cell carcinoma, can double in size every 21 days, Yockey said.
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