ON THE NEWS TODAY THEIR WERE MENTIONING THAT WOMEN ARE NO LONGER NEEDED TO GET THEIR MAMOGRAMMS EVER YEAR AND ARETELLING WOMEN THEY DONT NEED TO START UNTIL THEIR 50 AND ONLY NEED TO GO EVERY TWO YEARS.ARE THEY FRIGGEN KIDDING ME.?SOUND MORE LIKE INSURANCE COMPANIES CANT BE BOTHERED.I WOULD LIKE TO MEET THE JERK WHO THOUGHT OF THIS AS THIS WOULD BE THE FIRST ONE TO HAVE ONE OF HIS FAMILY MEMEBERS BE CHECKED GOD FORBID..WHAT HAS THIS WORLD COME TO?
Yeah, That is Bulls**t. I pray my insuarnce doesn't give me any trouble. I have to go for mine...like 2 months ago,lol. I have been going every 6 months for the last 18 months and this will be the next month, I pray it's the last.
I heard but I've got a family history of breast cancer. I don't think I'm willing to wait until I'm 50 to get a mammogram.
Wow thats a really scary thought. They don't care about people anymore. Its def. a scary world we live in.
And now...
Quote:Report: 20-somethings can go 2 years between Paps
By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer Lauran Neergaard, Ap Medical Writer - 6 mins agoWASHINGTON - First mammograms. Now - in an apparent coincidence - Pap smears.
New guidelines by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists say most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually to catch slow-growing cervical cancer.
The change comes amid a separate debate over when regular mammograms to detect breast cancer should begin. The timing of the Pap guidelines is coincidence, said ACOG, which began reviewing its recommendations in late 2007 and published the update Friday in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology.
The guidelines also say:
_Routine Paps should start at age 21. Previously, ACOG had urged a first Pap either within three years of first sexual intercourse or at age 21.
_Women 30 and older should wait three years between Paps once they've had three consecutive clear tests. Other national guidelines have long recommended the three-year interval; ACOG had previously backed a two- to three-year wait.
_Women with HIV, other immune-weakening conditions or previous cervical abnormalities may need more frequent screening.
Paps can spot pre-cancerous changes in the cervix in time to prevent invasive cancer, and widespread use has halved cervical cancer rates in the U.S. in recent decades. About 11,270 new cases will be diagnosed this year, and about 4,070 women will die from it, according to American Cancer Society estimates. Half of women diagnosed with cervical cancer have never had a Pap, and another 10 percent haven't had one in five years.
Cervical cancer is caused by certain strains of the extremely common sexually transmitted virus called HPV, for human papillomavirus. There is a new HPV vaccine that should cut cervical cancer in the future; ACOG's guidelines say for now vaccinated women should follow the same Pap guidelines as the unvaccinated.
But the updated guidelines reflect better understanding of HPV. Infection is high among sexually active teens and young adults. Women's bodies very often fight off an HPV infection on their own without lasting harm, although it can take a year or two. The younger the woman, the more likely that HPV is going to be transient.
Moreover, ACOG cited studies showing no increased risk of cancer developing in women in their 20s if they extended Pap screening from every year to every two years.
As for adolescents, ACOG said cervical cancer in teens is rare - one or two cases per million 15- to 19-year-olds - while HPV-caused cervical abnormalities usually go away on their own, and unnecessary treatment increases the girls' risk of premature labor years later.
Yeah, my Mom is a survivor and I'm supposed to get my first one at 35 because of that. My insurance better not give me any problems with that. If they do, I'll find a way to pay for one myself. Not worth the risk.
I find it hard to believe that the government changed this with out insurance companies lobbying for it.
This is such crap! One of the EX Buffalo Bills wife just died this week from breast cancer and she was only 42 or 43! You would think that the insurance companies would want to do anything to help us not be sick since it cost WAY more to pay for us to be treated once we are sick then it does to prevent us from getting too sick!!!! I've heard of the PAP thing before. There is a PAP that you don't need to go for like 5 years if you get 2 in a row good but I would never get that. What is it to just go once a year to get it done and have piece of mind?
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- j.a.n
on Nov. 19, 2009 at 6:53 PM