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Cervical cancer screening update: Not your mother’s Pap smear

POSTED DECEMBER 08, 2016, 9:30 AM
Andrea Chisholm, MD, Contributor

Confused about when to get your next Pap test? Anxious because your doctor said you don’t need another Pap for five years? Well, you are not alone. For several decades, getting a yearly Pap test has been the standard for cervical cancer screening. Recent research has concluded that women were being overscreened with annual Pap smears and overtreated for abnormal cells that were unlikely to ever become cervical cancer

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