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New Cervical Cancer Screening guidelines

post #1 of 5
11/20/09 at 8:31pm
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/20...nes/index.html

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The new mammogram recommendations out earlier this week caused quite an uproar. Now comes another change in screening tests for women -- this one for cervical cancer.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) releases new guidelines Friday, saying women don't need their first cervical cancer screening -- or Pap test -- until they're 21 years old. And, they don't need followup examinations as often as previously recommended.

According to the guidelines, women younger than 30 should be screened every two years, instead of annually. Women 30 or older can be examined once every three years.
Hope and Change with Obamacare. Just don't believe any of this is coincidental folks. Let the rationing begin. Anyone else find it remarkable that it is just women being thrown under the bus.
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post #2 of 5
11/20/09 at 10:49pm
Right - it's all a huge conspiracy on the part of the Obama administration.

Guidelines Push Back Age for Cervical Cancer Tests
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The advice, from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, is meant to decrease unnecessary testing and potentially harmful treatment, particularly in teenagers and young women...The group updates its advice regularly based on new medical information, and Dr. Iglesia said the latest recommendations had been in the works for several years, “long before the Obama health plan came into existence.”
I've been refusing to get PAP smears for precisely this reason:
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In addition, Dr. Saslow said, doctors in this country have been performing 15 million Pap tests a year to look for cervical cancer in women who have no cervix, because they have had hysterectomies.
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post #3 of 5
11/21/09 at 3:33am
In point of fact, the White House got a heads-up on both of these releases a couple of weeks ago, and they foresaw the problems they were going to cause. They tried to head off the releases, but didn't get any cooperation. If anything, you could make a case that the groups releasing the information were in a conspiracy to kill the health insurance reform bills, because it was predictable the results they would have.

The breast cancer screening info came from a governmental agency, but the pap smear suggestions came from the people who make money doing pap smears, so I would give it a little more credence.
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post #4 of 5
11/21/09 at 6:32am
These are, in fact, two different things. It's coincidental, I feel, that they came out at the same time. And unfortunate.

I was told over a year ago about this. I usually got my mammo and my pap smear at the same time. And I was told then that I wouldn't need one again for a couple of years.

Cervical cancer is not as aggressive as breast cancer, and if you have clear pap smears for 3 years in a row, they feel it's all right to wait. This panel also had doctors and gynecologists on it, as opposed to the other "task force" which had not one oncologist or radiologist on it.

Also, there are dangers to a woman's reproductive system if further exploratory surgery and tests are done that aren't needed.

This doesn't bother me as much as the mammo study. I feel the release of the mammo guidelines are much more dangerous than this.
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post #5 of 5
11/21/09 at 9:55am
Here are the guidelines for PAP testing in Nova Scotia, Canada

http://www.gov.ns.ca/news/details.asp?id=20061019002

However, the above is pretty much the standard across Canada
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