Relationship between Health Status and Use of Screening Mammography and Papanicolaou Smears among Women Older Than 70 Years of Age

Figure 1. *Women with a history of breast cancer and those in whom mammography was most recently performed because of a specific breast problem or as follow-up for a previously identified breast problem or abnormal mammogram were excluded. †Women with a history of cervical cancer and those whose most recent Papanicolaou ( ) smear was performed for work-up of a specific medical problem or follow-up of a previous medical examination were excluded.
Figure 1. *Women with a history of breast cancer and those in whom mammography was most recently performed because of a specific breast problem or as follow-up for a previously identified breast problem or abnormal mammogram were excluded. †Women with a history of cervical cancer and those whose most recent Papanicolaou ( ) smear was performed for work-up of a specific medical problem or follow-up of a previous medical examination were excluded. Flow diagram of women included in analyses for each screening test.Pap

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