Objective: To determine whether women know their own cervical cancer screening recommendations after hysterectomy, and to evaluate patients' understanding of hysterectomy terminology and cervical cancer screening.doi:10.1016/j.pec.2016.08.017Mattingly, Marlena...
Thesaurus Medical Encyclopedia (pæp)or Pap smear n 1.(Gynaecology & Obstetrics) another name forcervical smear 2.(Medicine) a similar test for precancerous cells in other organs US equivalent:Papanicolaou smear [C20: named after GeorgePapanicolaou(1883–1962), US anatomist, who devised it] ...
Women with previous hysterectomy were excluded from Pap smear analyses (n=5521). Outcome measures were being up-to-date with screening, receipt of physician recommendations, and women's adherence to physician recommendations for mammography ... JM Ferrante,PH Chen,BF Crabtree,... - 《American Jou...
If you've had ahysterectomy, you still may need to have Pap tests, depending on whether your cervix was removed. Cervical cells can remain at the top of the vagina after surgery, and if you have a history of moderate to severe cervical changes or cervical cancer, ACOG recommends that you...
screening in women after a hysterectomy had declined from 73.3% in 2000 to 58.7% in 2010. But this means that more than one half of the women were undergoing Pap tests unnecessarily, because hysterectomy involves removal of the cervix in the majority of cases (94% of cases, the CDC estimat...
The main use of HPV testing in screening for cervical cancer is for the determination of treatment and follow-up recommendations for women with Pap smear interpreted as atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASC-US). With Pap smears so available, why are women still dying of cervic...
Strategies of HPV testing followed by Pap triage were associated with fewer false-positive results and fewer cancers compared to strategies that used the Miller recommendations prior to age 25, and then switched to another strategy, or HPV-only strategies (conducted at less frequent screening ...
The task force also made recommendations about who doesn't need cervical cancer screening. This included women under 21, women who've had a hysterectomy that included removal of the cervix, women aged 65 and older who have had adequate screening in the past and aren't at a high...
1. No MRI or other imaging tests for low back pain, unless it has persisted longer than six weeks or there are red flags, such as neurological problems. 2. No antibiotics for mild to moderate sinusitis, unless it has lasted a week or longer. Or the condition worsens after first getting...
These changes may have further implications for the use of recommendations in pathology reports, and a relevant discussion is now included.21 Chapter 12: Risk assessment in cervical cancer This new chapter is an important addition to the third atlas, because it is key to understanding how the ...