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Published January 14, 2013, 05:15 AM

Government counts thousands of post-hysterectomy pap smears

The majority of women who have had complete hysterectomies have had a Pap smear within the past three years, the federal agency found. In the sample of 24,443 post-hysterectomy women over age 30, 58.7 percent (or 13,481 women) had undergone the cervical cancer screening.

By: Sarah Kliff, Washington Post

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