Cervical Cancer

Three-year screening interval okay for HIV+ women negative for HPV

Published in Women's Health Weekly, April 14th, 2005

Women with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) who have normal cervical cancer screening results and negative tests for human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually transmitted virus that is associated with cervical cancer, may be able to have Papanicolaou (Pap) smears every 3 years, the same interval as HIV negative women.

Study authors wrote in the March 23/30, 2005, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA, 2005;293:1471-1476) that "cervical cancer screening recommendations in the United States have been recently updated and now advise using an interval of 3 years between screenings in healthy women 30 years or older who have normal cytology...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-04-14)

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