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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.
Abstract:
The American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP) Colposcopy Standards recommendations address the role of colposcopy and directed biopsy for cervical cancer prevention in the United States (US). The recommendations were developed by an expert working group appointed by ASCCP's Board of Directors. An extensive literature review was conducted and supplemented by a systematic review and meta-analysis of unpublished data. In addition, a survey of practicing colposcopists was conducted to assess current colposcopy practice in the US. Recommendations were approved by the working group members, and the final revisions were made based on comments received from the public. The recommendations cover terminology, risk-based colposcopy, colposcopy procedures, and colposcopy adjuncts. The ASCCP Colposcopy Standards recommendations are an important step toward raising the standard of colposcopy services delivered to women in the US. Because cervical cancer screening programs are currently undergoing important changes that may affect colposcopy performance, updates to some of the current recommendations may be necessary in the future.
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