New Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines: Was the Annual Pap Too Much of a Good Thing?
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© 2013 Harborside Press® Fifty years ago in the United States, the leading cause of cancer death among women was cervical carcinoma. With the advent of the Papanicolaou (Pap) test in 1945, mortality from this malignancy declined more than 70% (Datta et al., 2008; Spitzer, 2007). An annual Pap smear was the recommended guideline for many years. New cervical cancer guidelines were released by the United States Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) on March 14, 2012.
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دوره 4 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2013