on Nov 5th, 2006Cervical Cancer, HPV and Older (Sexually Active) Women
If you’re an older women who has slept with a much younger man, you might want to get an HPV test. The moral of the story: nature can sometimes make for a bad roommate.
For more than 60 years the Pap smear has been the screening method of choice for cervical cancer, but it is not the best approach for assessing risk in older women, new research suggests.
In the newly reported study, women between the ages of 40 and 50 who tested positive for HPV had a greater than 20 percent chance of developing cervical cancer within 10 years. Most of these older women with positive HPV tests had concurrent Pap smear results that were negative.
For Older Women, HPV Test Better Cancer Screen Than Pap Smear
Friday, November 03, 2006
By Salynn Boyles, WebMD