Pap screening is no longer recommended for most women who have had total hysterectomies or have turned 70.
Most women age 70 or older and those who have had a total hysterectomy may choose to stop cervical cancer screening.
In older women, treatment is total abdominal hysterectomy and removal of both ovaries.
These theoretical advantages were not confirmed in practice, but other advantages over total hysterectomy emerged.
If you have had a total hysterectomy for a reason other than cancer, you do not need a Pap smear.
Women who have had a total hysterectomy (surgery to remove the uterus and cervix) for a condition that is not cancer.
In a total hysterectomy, the uterus and cervix are removed.
Also, screening is not needed for women who have had total hysterectomies, unless cervical cancer was the reason for the surgery.
A total hysterectomy is the removal of the uterus and cervix.
