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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 the health care provider if you have not obtained a pelvic exam and Pap smear at the recommended intervals. Typical recommendations are:

• 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 6 months 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