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Up Close - Up Close - January 17, 2013 |
By Treva Lind
Of the Journal of Business
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U.S. medical groups' guidelines now call for longer intervals of between three and five years between Pap tests to screen for cervical cancer, counter to what women have heard for decades.
These guidelines also have a new provision recommending that healthy women age 30 and older have what's called co-testing to include the human papillomavirus test and Pap test every five years as preferred to solely the Pap. If only the Pap test is done, the guidelines call for those 30 to 65 to...
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These guidelines also have a new provision recommending that healthy women age 30 and older have what's called co-testing to include the human papillomavirus test and Pap test every five years as preferred to solely the Pap. If only the Pap test is done, the guidelines call for those 30 to 65 to...
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