Pap smears: Why are we changing??
From: ATFSOCCER (ATFSOCCER@aol.com)
Thu Dec 18 22:20:29 1997
Our pathology department informed us they will be switching to the new
"Thin Prep" for evaluation of the pap smears.
They were not sure if going to this screen would allow us to reduce the number
of colposcopies that are done for ASCUS and LSIL.
I still have not figure out why we should replace the traditional pap smear
a screen that costs an additional $20 more. With 50 million paps done
annually
in the US we are looking at about 1 billion dollars in cost to attempt to save
the 14000 women who develop cervical cancer each year????
I must be missing something in my logic and look forward to some of my
colleagues correcting me.
Andy Folley MD FACOG
