Evidence-Based Consensus Recommendations for Colposcopy Practice for Cervical Cancer Prevention in the United States

Nicolas Wentzensen1, L Stewart Massad, Edward J Mayeaux

  • 11Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; 2Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; 3Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC; 4Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Adult and Family Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, San Leandro, CA; 5Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM; 6Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ; 7Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO; 8Tulsa Cancer Institute, University of Oklahoma, School of Community Medicine, Tulsa, OK; 9Department of Family Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI; 10Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; 11Women's Health Nurse Practitioner, Scotch Plains, NJ; 12Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, CA; 13Assistant County Administrator for Health Services and Chief Medical Officer, Pima County, Tuscon, AZ; 14Magee Women's Hospital of the UPMC System, Pittsburgh, PA; 15Women's Cancers, Reproductive Health, PATH, Seattle, Washington; 16Division of Gynecology-Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI; 17Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; 18Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; 19Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology & Women's Health, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY; 20Palmetto Health/University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC; 21Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA; 22Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK; 23Private Practice, Great Neck, NY; 24Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX; and 25Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL.

Summary

The American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP) updated its Colposcopy Standards recommendations for cervical cancer prevention in the US. These guidelines enhance colposcopy services and aim to improve patient outcomes through standardized practices.

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