Hysterectomy patients undergoing unnecessary cervical cancer screens
Case Management Weekly, June 23, 2004
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Physicians are providing unnecessary Pap smears to women who have had hysterectomies, despite the fact that they are not at risk for cervical cancer, according to a recent report in the Journal of the American Medical Association. While Pap smear screening is an effective tool in detecting cervical cancer, a 1996 report from the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force concluded that routine Pap smear testing is unnecessary for women who had hysterectomies for a non-cancerous disease. Researchers found that 69 % of women who had undergone a hysterectomy had a Pap smear within the past 3 years. The study's authors estimate that 10 million women have unnecessarily received Pap smears.
Source: Journal of the American Medical Association
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