Many teenage girls and young women in the US are having invasive gynecological exams, despite recommendations against the practice, research says.
What's more,"many young women associate the examination with fear, anxiety, embarrassment, discomfort and pain," the authors wrote in the study."Women with a history of sexual violence may be more vulnerable to these harms."to screen for cervical cancer, another exam not recommended for women under age 21. Pap tests involve inserting a device called a speculum inside the vagina and collecting cells from the cervix that might show precancerous changes.
But among those 15 to 20 year olds surveyed, 2.2 million said they'd had a Pap test within the past year. The authors determined 1.6 million were"potentially unnecessary.", or human papillomavirus. But the virus is so common that nearly everyone becomes infected, most often in their late teens and early 20s. In most cases, the lesions will go away on their own, experts say, and so testing for it has been found to increase the risk for false positives and unnecessary biopsies.
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