Annual Cervical Cancer Screening - Even If Unnecessary, Primary Doctors Recommend Them

Thursday, August 18, 2011 - 00:50 in Health & Medicine

As health care costs continue to rise and more people want more services for less money, it will be important that doctors engage in evidence-based medicine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have determined that the majority of primary care providers continue to recommend annual cervical cancer screening, though cervical cancer screening guidelines recommend a combination of a Papanicolaou test and an HPV test, known as an HPV co-test, for women 30 years of age and older. read more

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