America : Guidelines released the latest cervical cancer screening

America : Guidelines released the latest cervical cancer screening

 The new cervical cancer screening guidelines released this week . The guidelines recommend women to get a pap smear every three years instead of every year . Women aged under 21 years are not in the test at all , even though they are sexually active or at risk Human Papilloma Virus ( HPV ) infection , as reported from Yahoo! Shine , Friday ( 16/03/2012 ) .

Treatment for young women with HPV infection can cause infertility problems later in life . Regardless of the impetus to vaccinate girls and boys against HPV , experts agree that the vast majority of HPV infections will heal by itself . The infection also can not develop into cervical cancer over a period of a decade . So , they still have plenty of time for screening and treatment in the future .

" Inadvertently screening tests can cause harm , " wrote the experts from the United States Preventive Services Task Force in the new guidelines that will be published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine . " A positive test result may cause overdiagnosis , misdiagnosis , and raises the potential for unnecessary diagnostic tests , procedures , treatments , and risk to the patient . "

There is one more recommendation will be published with The American Cancer Society , American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology , and the American Society for Clinical Pathology . These guidelines show that women need more than just a pap smear and a decrease in the cervical screening is actually only a small change in an important aspect of women's health care .

Both the guidelines specifically say that women do not have to do a pap smear every year . " More frequent screening may be appropriate for women with the condition that it is vulnerable to an increased risk of cervical cancer such as immunocompromise or human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV ) " written on the American Cancer Society guidelines .