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Published in final edited form as: CA Cancer J Clin. 2012 Mar 14;62(3):147–172. doi: 10.3322/caac.21139

Table 6.

Evidence for stopping screening

PATIENTS/POPULATION	Women older than age 65
INTERVENTION	No further screening
COMPARATOR	Screening with cytology every 3 or 5 years
OUTCOME	MAIN RESULT	NUMBER OF STUDIES	QUALITY OF EVIDENCE	COMMENTS
CIN3+	NA
Cancer incidence	Continued screening to age 90 prevents only 1.6 cancer cases and 0.5 cancer deaths per 1000 women	1⁶³	Moderate-low	Modeling study; consistent with other modeling studies
Colposcopies	Continued screening to age 90 results in an additional 127 colposcopies	1⁶³	Moderate-low	Modeling study