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By Tracee Cornforth, About.com Guide to Women's Health since 1997

How Often Do You Need a Pap Smear?

Saturday November 29, 2003
Cervical Cancer Screening - Annual Pap Smears May Not Be Necessary
Previous Pap smear guidelines called for all women who were 18 (or younger, if sexually active) to have Pap smear screenings for cervical cancer once a year. The new Pap smear guidelines are significantly more lenient and allow many women to be screened for cervical cancer every two to three years. Here are some highlights of the new Pap smear guidelines.

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November 1, 2007 at 4:13 am
(1) thailand blog says:

I have written the article about pap smear test in Thailand. There is only one vaccine in Thailand which is called Gardasil, We would like to know the other type of vaccine which has better quality, can anyone tell us?

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