AMWA Released New Cervical Cancer Prevention Guidance

Filed in archive Diagnostics , Treatment by Gloria Gamat on March 28, 2007

The American Medical Women's Association (AMWA) has recently released the new cervical cancer prevention guidelines, which advocates the following:

HPV (Human Papillomavirus) testing as part of screening in women age 30 and older

HPV vaccination for all girls age 11 and 12

catch-up HPV vaccinations for other girls who qualify for vaccination

The guidelines have been announced by AMWA at the recent North American Congress of Women in Medicine, held March 23-25 in Orlando, Florida.

Find more details from the full report.

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Response from: Dallas Johnson (12/27/07 9:11am)

What is the cost of biomarker screeing ?Is it cost effective as a screeing tool ? Pap may cost more to follow up but what does this cost to test ?

Dallas Johnson,PHD
Midwest Cancer Screeing

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