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[quote=Anonymous]Important PSA for parents of daughters. Please take some time to understand how cervical cancer screening guidelines have changed since we were teenagers. Yes when we were young we were rushed off for our first pap as soon as we became sexually active and were told we should have them every year after that. Things have changed. Dramatically. And they’ve changed for good reason. We were over screening and over intervening on women’s cervices. There has been a ton of research in the last 10 to 20 years and path guidelines have changed quite a bit based on how we know better. I encourage you to look at ASCCP.org and specifically at the screening guidelines section. Right now most practices are still adhering to first pap T 21 but as you’ll see it will be shifting to for cervical cancer screening using primary HPV testing at age 25 very soon. You really shouldn’t be going to doctors who do them every year, even if you ask or insist on it. Because the research-based guidelines don’t tell us what to do with those inevitable abnormal positives and then you’ve got a doctor just basically making stuff up.[/quote]

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