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Women should not get their first cervical cancer screening before age 21, the leading US group of women's health care professionals said Friday, also recommending less frequent subsequent tests. Pushing back the age of the first screening would help avoid giving teen girls unnecessary treatment, which can have "economic, emotional and future childbearing implications," according to the guidelines issued by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). ACOG previously recommended that cervical screening begin three years after first sexual intercourse or by age 21, whichever occurred first. But the guidelines were revised because "screening for cervical cancer in adolescents only serves to increase ... Read Full Story

Women should not get their first cervical cancer screening before age 21, the leading US group of women's health care professionals said Friday, also recommending less frequent subsequent tests. Pushing back the age of the first screening would help avoid giving teen girls unnecessary treatment, which can have "economic, emotional and future childbearing implications," according to the guidelines issued by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). ACOG previously recommended that cervical screening begin three years after first sexual intercourse or by age 21, whichever occurred first. But the guidelines were revised because "screening for cervical cancer in adolescents only serves to increase ... Read Full Story

Mild cellular changes detected by Pap smears don't necessarily lead to cancer, a fact that played a role in the new pullback on cervical cancer screening, but both cell changes and cervical cancer can be traced to human papillomavirus. As today's story noted: "Human papillomavirus, or HPV, which causes cervical cancer and infects half of all young women within a few years of sexual activity's start, also causes cell changes called dysplasia. Those abnormal cells are typically removed before they become cancerous. But such treatment may not be necessary." Here's an overview of cervical dysplasia from the Women's Health Channel. It notes that up ... Read Full Story

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - So crammed is Tanzania's only cancer treatment center that Rukia Kondogoza, wrapped in bright kanga cloth, has to share her bed with another patient. A farmer from the rural south of the country, the 40-year-old has cervical cancer -- the biggest cause of female cancer deaths on the continent and a disease that kills one African woman every 10 minutes. Of the 500,000 women worldwide who are diagnosed with cervical cancer every year, 80 percent are in the developing world and 71,000 of them are in Africa, according to the African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer. "This ... Read Full Story