Fewer Pap Screenings Recommended

Item: Group recommends fewer Pap screenings: Report unconnected to recent mammogram advice /Shari Roan, L.A. Times

More Info: Only days after a federal panel scaled back on breast cancer screening recommendations for many women, another organization – the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists – has done the same for a screening credited with drastically reducing the rates of cervical cancer in the U.S. Women of all ages should undergo Pap smears less frequently than they do now, those new guidelines say. And young women are advised not to bother until age 21. The pullback follows the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s dismissal of routine breast cancer screenings for women under 50.

Question: What’s going on here?