Cervical Cancer Screening Tests Often Overused, Study Finds
Columbia University Irving Medical Center Cervical cancer screening tests-Pap smears and HPV tests-are frequently overused among commercially insured women with average risk of developing cancer, a new study from researchers at Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center finds. Jason Wright The study, involving nearly 2 million women who were screened for cervical cancer between 2013 and 2014, found that nearly two-thirds received unnecessary tests in the next three years, before their next recommended screening. “If the...
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