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Cervical Cancer
Three-year screening interval okay for HIV+ women negative for HPV
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...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-04-14)
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