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  2. How Often Should You Get a Pap Smear? We Asked an OBGYN - AOL

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    It’s also worth noting that if you have had an abnormal pap result, your health care provider may suggest that you test more regularly. ... or two negative co-test results (HPV and pap smear) in ...

  3. Pap Smears May No Longer Be Part of Your Gyno Visit

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    The task force has introduced a recommendation that women over the age of 30 test for high-risk human papilloma viruses (HPV) every five years rather than relying on pap smears to detect cervical ...

  4. What an HPV Diagnosis Really Means - AOL

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    (Keep in mind: In some places, the ordering of tests has become flipped: Women have an HPV test first, and if the result is positive, then they have a Pap smear, says Katzenellenbogen.)

  5. Pap test - Wikipedia

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    The Papanicolaou test (abbreviated as Pap test, also known as Pap smear (AE), [1] cervical smear (BE), cervical screening (BE), [2] or smear test (BE)) is a method of cervical screening used to detect potentially precancerous and cancerous processes in the cervix (opening of the uterus or womb) or, more rarely, anus (in both men and women). [3]

  6. Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia - Wikipedia

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    HPV testing can identify most of the high-risk HPV types responsible for CIN. HPV screening happens either as a co-test with the Pap smear or can be done after a Pap smear showing abnormal cells, called reflex testing. Frequency of screening changes based on guidelines from the Society of Lower Genital Tract Disorders (ASCCP).

  7. Cervical screening - Wikipedia

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    However, it is acceptable to screen this age group with a Pap smear alone every 3 years or with an FDA-approved primary high risk HPV test every 5 years. [11] In women over the age of 65, screening for cervical cancer may be discontinued in the absence of abnormal screening results within the prior 10 years and no history of high-grade lesions ...

  8. Cervical cancer screening rates are dropping. Here's why that ...

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    The American Cancer Society (ACS) suggests starting screening at age 25 with an HPV test and having HPV testing every five years through age 65. But the ACS also says that having an HPV/Pap co ...

  9. Health panel recommends self-testing option for cervical ...

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    Alternatively, people between the ages of 30 and 65 can also undergo a Pap smear every three years or get a combined HPV and Pap test every five years, according to the recommendations.