Report: 20-somethings can go 2 years between Paps

AP ^ | 11/20/09 | LAURAN NEERGAARD

[Rastus]

WASHINGTON – Most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually, say new guidelines that conclude that's enough to catch slow-growing cervical cancer.

[Rastus]

Here we go again! I'd say these people are tone deaf, but the truth is they don't care what we think.

Sorry if it's been posted. It would seem it would have to have been, but a couple of searches didn't find it.

[gwilhelm56]

Can we say ... “MEDICAL RATIONING!!”??? ALREADY..

Hey ladies, between the Mammograms and the Pap Smears.. line up, take one for the FUHRER and DROP DEAD!!!

geez... GOD HELP US ALL.

[Rastus]

Laura Ingraham was on O’Reilly talking about slowing down on prostate checks. I don’t know if she was speculating that that was the next step, or if it’s already been recommended by one of these death panels.

[Crim]

allready recomended...

[historyrepeatz]

How about we go 2 years of Obama instead of 4. He’s worse than cancer.

[historyrepeatz]

Or perhaps I should’ve said, “F-U and stay the hell out of our private parts.”

[sten]

Hey look! A 50% reduction in costs for 0bamacare pap smears! Schweet!!

What’s the worst that could happen? You die? That’s even more cost savings passed onto 0bamacare

[Rastus]

See: gwilhelm56’s tagline. :-)

[LukeL]

This type of biopsy is very cheap when considering what it can prevent in the long run.

[TruJess]

This isn’t new. More than a few Drs. recommend this, particularly for patients who aren’t at high risk for HPV.

[Nasher]

Best CYA for 0bamacare as provided by this AP article : "The timing of the Pap guidelines is coincidence". Yeah, right.

[Rastus]

When I was a freshman in high school, my health teacher had a smoking hot senior class TA who would sit at a desk at the front of the class, facing the rest of us. On Fridays, she would show up in her cheerleading uniform and I don’t think any of the guys in the class heard of word of the lecture on those days.

Anyway, about a year later, I heard that she developed cervical cancer. 18, and she had to have her uterus removed. I didn’t hear anything beyond that, and I don’t know if it was caught with a pap or if she found out the hard way, but these guidelines certainly wouldn’t have helped her at all.

[gov_bean_ counter]

No Pap + abstinence not encouraged = more dead women

The sitting president is a Muslim misogynist.

[pandoraou812]

Where are these morons coming from? I can't understand the people who are believing this bs. Pap smears save lives, I know all too well. This makes no sense when you read about all the STD’s that cause cancer & the fact they push sex in schools etc. FUBO & leave our health care alone.

[tinamina]

Both mamograms and prostate screening (PSA) tests are to be postponed.

Survival of the fittest? I wonder.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Well, since Mrs. GBC is over 50 she will continue to get the ***** press, but if she ever tires of self examination, I'm more than willing to ...

[Lancey Howard]

Breaking news: New guidelines stress that having your baby in the comfort of your own kitchen protects the baby from the airborne germs that abound in the typical hospital setting.

[backhoe]

Mams, prostates, cervixes... hey, you never needed those parts, anyway... think of how much money you'll save DeathCare!

[pnh102]

Dirt is cheaper than cancer treatments.

[DannyTN]

Why don’t we just abandon all diagnostic tests all together.
It will save us a fortune in Health care. /s