usmlebuzz
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what should we pick as the screening test of choice given that a lady in her late 60s had all normal screening test mamography, pap, sigmoidoscopy, bi sugar, lipids one year back? she is not sexually active.
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| doc4mindia
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mamography
women over age 40 should have yearly breast examinations.
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| usmlebuzz
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why not pap smear? :roll:
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| doc4mindia
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pap smear done every year when patient has risk factors for cervical dysplasia.
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| fried water
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does the question give any more information on pap smear? coz pap smear is not done annually if 3 concecutive samples have come normal then its needed every 3 yearly til the age of 65. But a mammography is must here.. so guess i wud definitly pick mammography here.
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| usmlebuzz
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the question just says she had a normal pap smear a year back
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