Routine Care & Wellness

Are some women more at risk for cervical cancer than others?

• You have had multiple sex partners or a male partner who has had multiple female partners. If your partner has had sex with other women, you are at high risk even if you have had only one partner.
• You have had genital warts.
• You had sexual relations before the age of 18.
• You previously had an abnormal Pap examination.

Although not having a Pap examination doesn't cause cancer, you are at greater risk if you have never had a Pap examination, or had your last one three or more years ago.

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This information about Pap examination is used with permission and courtesy of the College of American Pathologists.