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...smear. The College also recommended less frequent screening for older women: every two years for women in their 20s instead of yearly, and every three years for women 30 and older. Previously, the ACOG - along with other national groups, including the American Cancer Society and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (or USPSTF, the same group that revised its mammography screening advice) - had advised girls to begin yearly Pap tests within three years of their first sexual encounter or, regardless of their sexual activity, by the time they reach 21. (Read "Mammogram Guidelines: What You Need to Know...
...benefit increases, however, with the age of the women being screened, as the risk of breast cancer rises: among women 50 to 59, one death is averted for every 1,339 women routinely screened; among women 60 to 69, 377 mammograms would be needed to prevent one death. The task force's computer models further showed that shifting women's screening schedule from yearly to once every two years retains 81% of the benefit of screening while reducing the harms like false positives by half...
...published in the Nov. 17 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, once again leave out the younger women and suggest that those over 50 get screened biennially. But the recommendations do not instruct women under 50 never to get screened, says Dr. Diana Petitti, vice chair of the task force. The new guidelines were meant to trigger and inform discussion between women in their 40s and their doctors about routine screening. "We thought we were saying that the evidence shows that there is this amount of benefit and this amount of potential harm for women in their...
...chromosome after a tractor accident brings her to a hospital. In a moment of radical loss of identity, she flees her home and moves to San Francisco. Struggling to escape the vestiges of femininity and grappling with loneliness and alienation, Calliope becomes Cal and sets to the reflective task of writing “Middlesex...
...person, too, just like Lefty and Desdemona, and I didn’t know what would happen to me in this new world to which I’d come.” Cal’s sexual transformation is, for his generation, as heroic and insurmountable a task as immigration and assimilation was for his grandparents, if not moreso...