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Just days after new guidelines come out for breast cancer screening, another group calls for fewer Pap smears for women in the 20's. Dr.

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am 63 and have had a Pap smear every year for as long as I can remember.

Changes to guidelines regarding when women should be screened for breast and cervical cancer made headlines this week.

Teenagers in Newcastle are being offered a vaccine to protect them against cervical cancer.

This week two panels of medical experts recommended fewer screening tests for breast and cervical cancer.

Just days after a government task force changed what we'd always been told about mammograms, there's new advice on pap smears.

The world of cancer screening has been upended in the past two weeks. Not only did the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force just raise the age at which it recommends women get their first mammogram from 40 to 50, but the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists decided that adolescents should be spared the inconvenience and possible risks of ...

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Women can delay having their first Pap test for cervical cancer until they turn 21 and many can wait longer to go back for follow-up screenings, according to new guidelines being released today by a major medical group.

Just days after a federal task force changed its recommendations for mammograms, there is new advice for pap smears.

Just days after a task force called for women to have fewer mammograms, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologist is recommending women have fewer Pap tests to screen for cervical cancer.

Republicans are seizing on last week's recommendations from different groups for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care - and to try to chip away at support by women for President Obama's proposed health-care overhaul.

A leading medical group added new fuel to a budding health care controversy on Friday by recommending that women delay their first cervical-cancer screening until age 21 instead of starting the test three years after becoming sexually active Continues... Say, didn't a certain someone mention 'Death Panels'? The "U.S. Preventive Services Task Force" ...

New medical guidelines are calling for fewer Pap smears for most women in their 20s.

With cancer screenings, more is always better. At least that's what people have been told for years - get mammograms, Pap smears, colonoscopies and prostate tests as early and often as possible to catch cancer before it spreads.

Previously women were recommended that they should have their first PAP test when they reached their eighteenth birthday; and even earlier if they were sexually active before then.

More than 10,000 women will be diagnosed with cervical cancer this year, and 3,700 women will die from the disease.

A WIDOWER has been awarded a six-figure sum in damages after he successfully sued a hospital trust over the death of his wife.

Published: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 5:17 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 5:17 a.m. This week, the science of medicine bumped up against the foundations of American medical consumerism: that more is better, that saving a life is worth any sacrifice, that health care is a birthright.

For the second time in a week, medical experts are revising the advice given women on cancer screenings.