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Cervical Cancer Screening
U.S. OBGYNs continue to limit contraception prescriptions pending cervical cancer screening
November 3rd, 2005
U.S. obstetrician and gynecologists continue to limit routine and emergency contraception prescriptions pending cervical cancer screening. "Balancing needs for contraception and cervical cancer screening is challenging for clinicians." Investigators from the United States "assessed U.S. obstetrician/gynecologists' practices regarding requirement of Pap testing before prescribing oral contraceptive or emergency contraceptive pills." E. B. Schwarz and colleagues described their study: "Questionnaires structured as clinical vignettes describing women desiring contraception with different risks of cervical dysplasia were mailed to a national sample of...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-11-03)
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