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PAP smears in women over 65 have a very low yield. If cervical screening has been reassuring up to this point or if the woman has had a hysterectomy, continued cervical cancer screening after age 65 is canada goose outlet store more likely to find a false positive than to find a true positive. Clearly there will be exceptions but as a routine screening it more often than not renders more harm than good. This is precisely the conclusion made of routine pelvic examination. This recommendation by the American College of Physicians is welcome but as far as I can tell, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists still endorses annual pelvic examinations (there may be a new Committee Opinion in the works that has not yet been published). The reasons for routine visitation to a gynecologist seem to be thinning. The long term implications of this are interesting to consider.

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As a gynecologist, this discussion is near and dear to me. Pap smears are becoming less frequent, but canada goose outlet jackets periodic pelvic exams should still be done. The unfortunate advanced vulvar cancers that I have been referred were in women who had been seeing physicians regularly. Maybe they had had a hysterectomy, canada goose black friday sale widowed or no longer sexually active, or with dementia or other health issues the belt No one really looked until it was too advanced. Very few women are going to happily offer up for a pelvic exam, they would be more than happy to forego this exam. But I think if these women had had a physician (not necessarily a gynecologist) just look, and see that something didn look right, these canada goose outlet canada women could have a local excision rather than face a terminal diagnosis. I tell my patients who may have had a hysterectomy, or old enough to no longer need paps, that every few years, someone (can be the gynecologist or other medical physician) needs to look at the vulva and pelvis making sure everything still is healthy.