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Mammograms, Pap Tests Overdone In Sick, Elderly

The May 4, 2004 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine reports that mammograms and Pap tests are being performed too much in older, sick women who have limited life expectancies.

According to researchers at the University of California in San Francisco, the health status of older women should be taken into consideration before the screening tests are done because the dangers of the tests can outweigh the benefits in this population.

The dangers noted by the researchers were the unnecessary tests and procedures ordered for the patients because of faulty results, treatment of insignificant disease and psychological stress.

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