Reading Part A - Answer Booklet
Reading Part A - Answer Booklet
Reading Part A - Answer Booklet
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Part A - Answer Booklet
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Summary
Vasectomy One method of contraception is male sterilisation or vasectomy. Statistics for 2008 showed that 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Patients are informed that vasectomy is a procedure ....(4)....serious risks or complications. After the operation, which is ....(5)....carried out under local anaesthetic, the man will often experience pain from bruising and swelling of his ....(6)..... General advice is to wear ....(7)....to provide support. Physical exertion should ...(8).... for seven days as a minimum. If the site of the operation becomes....(9)....or greatly swollen, or if there is bleeding, the patient should seek immediate medical attention. After the operation and for several months subsequently, ....(10).... may form if there is any leakage of sperm into the 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
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Summary
Men with vasectomies have been shown 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29.
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....(16).... months. A control group of men with a matching ....(17).... profile was also interviewed. The length of time since ....(18).... did not affect
the relative risk, nor did other possible factors (e.g. ....(19)....of prostate cancer, social class,
....(20)....and/or location).
Vasectomy is not intended to be a ....(21).... change. Consequently, reversal is difficult and this can make it ....(22)..... A successful outcome cannot be guaranteed. In one case, a man had to have ....(23)....before his vasectomy was properly reversed. Having already fathered
his original decision to have a vasectomy was responsible. However, he now advises men in their ....(25)... to wait unless they are absolutely certain they ....(26)....a child. Statistics from Britain for 2008 seem to ....(27).... this advice: the percentage of men who had had a vasectomy changes gradually from ....(28).... of those aged 16-29 to ....(29)....of those aged 50-54.