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Originally Posted by ssmith
...since I was a nurse at a large Ob/Gyn office and at that time they were recommending that women with low risk did not need a pap smear every year. An exam that included checking out the abdomen by feel for ovarian cancer yes...every year but not a pap....hmmmm forget at what age they recommended not doing the pap yearly. This was a recommendation from the American College of Gynecology and again it may have changed back again. Also it used to be that Medicare did not pay for yearly pap smears either.
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SSmith, thanks for the information. I went online and googled the recommendations of the American College of Obs/Gyn. They said that a woman 65 to 70 can discontinue screenings, but only if they've had three consecutive normal Paps and nothing abnormal in ten years. Your post made me realize it isn't only about cancer of the cervix though. It's also about ovarian cancer. So I'm going to keep keep making yearly appointments with a Gyn for a while, better safe than sorry.
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