Probably not, unless she's higher than normal risk or has had an abnormal pap recently. According to the American Cancer Society, if you're getting liquid-based pap tests, you only need one every two years if you're under 30 and every three years if you're over 30.
Anyway (and I know I sound like a broken record about this) pap tests are not a clinical requirement for HBC prescriptions, and it's completely manipulative and unethical for doctors to use HBC scripts as a way to coerce women into getting pap tests.
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Probably not, unless she's higher than normal risk or has had an abnormal pap recently. According to the American Cancer Society, if you're getting liquid-based pap tests, you only need one every two years if you're under 30 and every three years if you're over 30.
Anyway (and I know I sound like a broken record about this) pap tests are not a clinical requirement for HBC prescriptions, and it's completely manipulative and unethical for doctors to use HBC scripts as a way to coerce women into getting pap tests.