ASCCP Colposcopy Standards: Role of Colposcopy, Benefits, Potential Harms, and Terminology for Colposcopic Practice

Michelle J Khan¹, Claudia L Werner, Teresa M Darragh+12

• ¹1Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Adult and Family Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, San Leandro, CA; 2Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX; 3Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, CA; 4Magee Women's Hospital of the UPMC System, Pittsburgh, PA; 5Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI; 6Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; 7Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Yale University, New Haven, CT; 8Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; 9Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Washington University of Medicine, St Louis, MO; 10Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC; 11Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM; 12Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO; 13Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ; and 14Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL.