"For younger women who have had at least two normal annual screenings, the Task Force found no evidence that annual screening achieves better outcomes than screening every 3 years."
While this isn't really news (the data to support this recommendation has been around for quite a while), it's an 'official' guideline that supports what many of us have been doing for years. The 37 year old mother-of-two who is monogamous and has no history of abnormal pap smears does not need to be screened annually. Now I can point to this report when I discuss screening options, since this is always a shared decision anyway.
