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Pap Tests: Another Revision of Recommendations

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Days after a government advisory panel rolled back its recommendations on mammography screening for breast cancer, another influential group issued revised guidelines on the use of Pap smears to detect cervical cancer, recommending that young women delay getting their first test. In its new guidelines issued Friday, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) recommended that adolescent girls wait until age 21 to get their first Pap smear. The College also recommended less frequent screening for older women: every two years for women in their 20s instead of yearly, and every three years for women 30 and older. Previously, the ACOG — along ... Read Full Story

New Pap Test Guidelines: Start Later, Have Fewer

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Experts urge first screen at 21, then once every 2 years or more, not annually Share What is this? Buzz Digg Facebook More... EMAIL PRINT RSS   FRIDAY, Nov. 20 (HealthDay News) -- For the second time in a week, medical experts are revising the advice given women on cancer screenings. Now women are being told that they should get their first screening for cervical cancer -- including a Pap test -- at age 21. The recommendation appears in guidelines released Nov. 20 by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. And, rather than have an annual Pap test, most women need to be ... Read Full Story

ACOG revises Pap smear recommendations

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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) today announced new guidelines on Pap smears and cervical cancer screenings . The organization says that women can wait until they’re age 21 to have their first Pap tests. ACOG also says that women between the ages of 21 and 30 should have a Pap test and cervical cancer screening once every two years instead of once every year. Women aged 30 and older who’ve had no previous complications in their last three screenings can have a Pap test once every three years. The organization revised its recommendations based on the latest research about Pap tests ... Read Full Story

Guidelines Ditch Annual Pap Smears - ABC News

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From Good Morning America (something I have never typed before:): Pap smears may no longer be called "annuals" if doctors follow new cervical cancer screening recommendations from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. ....A new recommendation from experts suggests women need fewer pap smears.The group announced today that women should start getting cervical cancer screenings at age 21 instead of 18, and that women could wait longer between the screenings -- regardless of when a woman starts having sex....Women in their 20s with normal Pap smear results now should get screenings every two years instead of every year, and women in their 30s ... Read Full Story

Physical Therapy For Cervical Stenosis

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Free eBook and Videos on Back Pain Relief   Cervical Stenosis Treatment Stenosis of the spine can occur in different areas of your spine and produce different symptoms. But basically all types result from a narrowing of the spinal canal–most often the result of arthritis. As the spinal canal narrows, the liklihood increases that it will come into contact with the arthritic material and pain is the result. Cervical stenosis is localized in the neck and shoulders The vertebrae are a series of bones connected to each other forming the neck, also known as the cervical spine. The spinal canal, which encloses the spinal ... Read Full Story
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First Cervical Cancer Screening Delayed Until Age 21 Less Frequent Pap Tests...
Washington, DC -- Women should have their first cervical cancer screening at age 21 and can be rescreened less frequently than previously recommended, according to newly revised evidence-based guidelines issued today by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and published in the December issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology.  
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Will cutting back on teen Pap tests result in more STDs?
Teen girls can skip Pap tests, according to new guidelines that say women should start cervical cancer screening at age 21. But some experts are concerned that rates of sexually transmitted diseases or unplanned pregnancies could increase without the Pap test to prompt a doctor's visit.  
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Radical hysterectomy better than radiotherapy for early cervical cancer
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For women with early-stage cervical cancer, outcomes and survival are better with surgery than with radiation treatment, according to researchers. However, the advantage is limited to women with tumors 6 cm in size or less.  
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Fas and FasL gene polymorphisms are not associated with cervical cancer but...
Background: Cervical cancer is one of the most important cancers in African women. Polymorphisms in the Fas (FasR) and Fas ligand (FasL) genes have been reported to be associated with cervical cancer in certain populations. This study investigated whether these polymorphisms are associated with cervical cancer or human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in South African women.FindingsParticipants were 447 women with invasive cervical cancer (106...  
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New Guidelines for Cervical Cancer Screenings
Christina Chu, MD, an assistant professor in the division of Gynecologic Oncology, is quoted in a WHYY Radio story about the new ACOG cervical cancer screening guidelines, which were announced last week, recommending that young women hold off on getting pap smears until they’re 21 years old, since cervical cancer is slow-growing and the human papillomavirus (HPV) infections that can lead to it often clear on their own. “For young girls who...  
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Informed consent is missing from Pap smears and cervical cancer screening
by Joel Sherman, MD The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) has just revised their guidelines for Pap smears under some pressure. This resulted from an Annals of Internal Medicine article which documented that only 16.4% of gynecologists followed the College’s prior guidelines. Most did more screenings than indicated, the worst record of the [...]Posted at KevinMD.com. Stay updated and subscribe, follow me on Twitter, or...  
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Women should undergo fewer Pap tests for cervical cancer, medical group says
Just days after the release of controversial new guidelines recommending against routine mammograms for most women under 50, a different group of medical professionals has announced that the frequency of Pap tests for cervical cancer detection should also be decreased for most women. [More]  
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