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  Report: 20-somethings can go 2 years between Paps

  First mammograms. Now - in an apparent coincidence - Pap smears.

  • MP3: Bernadine Healy, the former director of the National Institutes of Health, says the change in guidelines for cervical cancer testing are "responsible" and based on "very good science." COURTESY: CBS' "The Early Show"
  • MP3: The AP's Ed Donahue reports the recommendation has changed for women who get pap smears.
  • MP3: There is a new recommendation for tests for cervical cancer. The AP's Ed Donahue reports.
  • MP3: Dr. Bernadine Healy, the former director of the National Institutes of Health, says it makes sense for women in their 20s to get fewer pap smears. COURTESY: CBS' "The Early Show"
  • MP3: Dr. Bernadine Healy, the former director of the National Institutes of Health, supports the change in guidelines for cervical cancer testing. COURTESY: CBS' "The Early Show"

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• Survivors speak out

  Some Mississippi Coast doctors and breast cancers survivors have joined the tidal surge of public opinion created when a government task force recommended fewer mammograms and to stop breast self-examination. New guidelines call for no routine mammograms before age 50 and none after 75.

  • Gallery: Survivors speak out

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