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Fri 23 Nov, 2007 10:27 am
And of course this is why the rules if you like for cervical cancer screening have changed. This realisation that in fact if you do screen, over screen younger women you're going to get spooked because you're going to find all this stuff and really women probably are getting screened too early and women who are older are not getting screened enough to find out these women who have got the chronic infection and who may be at risk of cancer.
(from:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/stories/2006/1704762.htm)
What does "get spooked" mean?
And I can't understand the reasoning in the above sentences? Could you please paraphrase it for me?
Thanks in advance!
A "spook" is a "ghost" or a 'haunt". "Get spooked" means that you've been frightened by the specter, the ghost, of something that does not exist.
That sentence is a nightmare on its own.
Essential the meaning is that the policy for screening for cervical cancer has changed. There are a number of factors that give younger women false positive readings, frightening them unnecessarily. Also, older women--in whom cervical cancer is more likely--are not being screened enough.
That sentence reads like it is a transcroption of spoken words. It lcks puncuation.
In this sentence, the word "really" is a word to give pause, much like "OK?" does, or "you know".
It should have been set apart with commas:
. . . , really, . . . . . .
Sorry . . . that's "lacks"
I need to use the spellchecker.
And could I ask more?
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