2nd time this week, medical experts revise guidelines for women

New Pap Test Guidelines: Start Later, Have Fewer

Experts urge first screen at 21, then once every 2 years or more, not annually


FRIDAY, Nov. 20, 2009
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 screened every other year or less,
depending on their age, the guidelines say.

The recommendations come on the heels of a similar advisory on breast cancer screening, issued Nov. 16
by a government panel of experts, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
Those guidelines suggest that the average woman need not have a mammogram to screen for breast cancer
until age 50 and, after that, should have the test every other year rather than annually.



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it's starting to look like a conspiracy

It IS a conspiracy.

Its the beginning of what we can expect under Obamacare.

BMG wrote:

It IS a conspiracy.

Its the beginning of what we can expect under Obamacare.

then you can expect blood lettings and leaches