Cervical cancer: how often for early detection? – Health

Fear is a bad advisor. This is especially true in medicine, because worries about health can make symptoms worse. It is therefore particularly perfidious to activate fears in patients without taking the medical background into account. These allegations apply in the case of cervical cancer screening. After all, since 2020, a new program has been in force in Germany on how the tumor, known in technical terms as cervical carcinoma, can be detected as effectively and early as possible. But even before the offer came into force, the professional association of gynecologists predicted that the early detection program would be “a disaster” and lead to “chaos in the practices”. Patient information warned against extending the examination intervals from one to three years if the findings were normal: “The annual early detection examination is indispensable.”