Cervical Polyps

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Calling Your Health Care Provider

Call for an appointment with your health care provider if you are a woman, age 20 or older, and have had no prior pelvic examination and Pap smear.

Call for an appointment with your health care provider if you have not obtained a Pap smear at recommended intervals of:

• Every year initially
• For women up to age 35 or 40: every 2 to 3 years after having three negative, consecutive annual Pap smear tests and a single sexual partner or no sexual partner
• Every year for women over age 35 or 40
• Every year for women who have had multiple sexual partners
• Every year for women who are taking oral contraceptives (birth control pills)
• Every year for women who have a history of HPV (genital warts)
• Every year for women who were prenatally exposed to DES
• The frequency recommended by your health care provider after an abnormal Pap smear