Ideally there is no remediation for screening with a pap smear test daily. the American college of Obs, Gyn which we all follow, the guidelines, they say that, we should start screening at the age of 21 and the screening should be 3 yearly. So 3 yearly screening is what is expected. They don’t expect you to screen with a human papilloma virus test, what we call as a HPV test. You should start at age of around 45 for high risk women and that could be done once in 5 years. The ideal recommendation is if the previous pap smears are normal, would be just so the pap smears every 3 yearly. That is what I would recommend. If there is some problem with your pap smear , speak to your gynecologist and you can go ahead with your yearly pap smear test. That is what is recommended. After the age of 65, and if your pap smear s have been regular and you have been doing your pap smear test very regularly and they have been all normal, then you could just stop doing pap smear after the age of 65 . So a pap smear every 3 yearly, if there is any problem then speak to your gynecologist, so that you can increase the frequency of you r pap smears. After the age of 65 if your smears have been normal for the past 10 years then you can stop your pap smear.

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