Importance of annual Pap Smear Screening
There was an article in the New York Times by Tara Parker-Pope entitled “The annual appointment loses some relevance”. It was about the highly publicized, but not so very different, pap smear guidelines by the USPSTF (United States Preventative Services Task Force). The guidelines had already been changed several years ago making the recommendation for less screening in some women. At that time, as a member of the Editorial Board of Contemporary ObGyn, I wrote a piece entitled “If it...
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