Annual Pap Smears No Longer Necessary
Annual Pap Smears No Longer Necessary
Annual pap smears no longer necessary, especially for teen girls.
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" Yearly pap smears to detect cervical cancer are no longer necessary to the American college of OBG lands. Women under 21 don't need them in all in the new guidelines for women in their twenties it's every other year. And women over thirty with a three year history of normal pap smears can wait three years for a retest. And then the test stopped completely at age 65 or seventy. Experts say it's because cervical cancer develops so slowly. It'll detect it in a timely fashion. And women -- young women actor xmas. For women under age 21 the odds of cervical cancer are one in a million. Yet teens have been screened and treated for lesions which would clear up on their own these patients based on the fact that they've had mentally abnormal pap smears. "
" Wind up getting part of their cervix removed or destroyed. And that weakens the cervix causing problems with future pregnancies."
" OBG lions say it's just a coincidence their new guidelines come after others on mammograms. Which cost a lot of dissent. This time the will be healing -- doctors are more unified about -- since we feel that."
" This has not -- diminish our ability to screen for cervical cancer I think we're all in favor this kind of recommendation."
" He -- NBC five news."
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