Update on Cervical Cancer Screening

摘要

Are you ready to give up the sacred cow of the annual the Papanicolaou (Pap) test? Cervical cancer used to be the leading cause of cancer death for women in the United States. However, in the past 40 years, the numbers of cases and deaths from cervical cancer have decreased significantly. In 2009, (the most recent year numbers are available) 12,357 US women were diagnosed with cervical cancer and 3,909 died from it.