So You Got An Abnormal Pap. Now What?
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Julia Austin
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How often should you get paps now?
“If you have an HPV diagnosis, just do your annual pap smear,” advises Dr. Johnson. Though she admits, not all doctors see eye to eye on this. “It’s controversial. Some say you can just do it annually until a certain amount of paps are normal.” But she thinks anyone who has ever tested positive for high-risk HPV should go in annually for pap smears. “Once the presence is there, it can progress if not checked. A lot of my colleagues have a patient who skipped a year or two of pap smears, and came back with something serious.”
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