Rates of cervical cancer screening in the US
http://www.springerlink.com/content/rw33577571673852/
New cervical cancer guidelines (end of yearly testing)http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/HealthyLiving/guidelines-ditch-annual-pap-smears/story?id=9131632
Added 21 Dec 09
Quinquennial (5-yearly) smears - every woman's right and every general practitioners responsibility (paper dated 1984) UK
http://www.jstor.org/pss/29516758
Added 21 Dec 09
Article on the decision not to screen at age 20 in the UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8116962.stm
Added 23 Dec 09
Article discussing changing first age of screening from 20 to 25 (Australia)
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/national/6503507/start-pap-tests-later-in-life-say-australian-doctors/
Added 1 Jan 2010
Hansard - UK Parliament discussion on possibly changing the smear test age from 25 to 20
http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200809/cmhansrd/cm091014/debtext/91014-0008.htm
Added 23 Jan 2010
Decision not to reduce the age of screening in the UK from 25 to 20
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/338/jun26_1/b2583
Added 29 Jan 2010
Findings and outcomes of teenage women referred for colposcopy in Christchurch (New Zealand)
http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal/118-1211/1350/
Added 14 Feb 2010
Emotion vs evidence re: dropping screening age
http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/2009/07/29/health-and-cervical-screening-emotion-vs-evidence/#comments
Added 25 Feb 2010
Should we discontinue pap smear testing in women >65 years of age?
http://www.jfponline.com/Pages.asp?AID=1678&issue=April_2004&UID=
Added 12 Mar 2010 -Cervical screening - when to start? (New Zealand)
http://www.nsu.govt.nz/News/2177.aspx
Added Mar 2010
Smear tests in virgins
http://www.carepages.com/cancer/cervical-cancer-and-virginity.html
Added Apr 2010
Study providing scientific background to UK screening being moved to over-25s
http://www.nursingtimes.net/whats-new-in-nursing/behind-the-headlines-archive/smear-test-no-benefit-in-early-20s/5004667.article
Added April 13 2010 - Article on efficiency of varied frequency and age of screening (UK)
http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v89/n1/full/6600974a.html
Added April 18 2010 - article on decision to keep screening age at 25 (UK)
http://www.cancerscreening.nhs.uk/cervical/publications/nhscsp31.pdf
Added June 2010
UK research paper on effectiveness in screening the under-25s
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/339/jul28_2/b2968?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=1&author1=Sasieni&andorexacttitle=and&titleabstract=cervical&andorexacttitleabs=and&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=date&fdate=7/1/2009&tdate=9/30/2009&resourcetype=HWCIT
Added Jan 2011 - Risk of cervical abnormality in women over 50 with previous negative history
http://publications.icr.ac.uk/8176/1/8176PV.pdf
