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The ScotsmanSome women at long-term cervical cancer risk
By Michael Kahn
LONDON (Reuters) - Women treated for pre-cancerous lesions are at increased risk of developing cervical or vaginal cancer for at least another 25 years, according to a study suggesting that follow-up tests fall dangerously short.
Using data from Sweden's national cancer registry, the researchers said on Friday women who have had severe lesions in the cervix are more than twice as likely to develop one of the two cancers than women in the general population.
The findings underscore the need for follow-up tests to continue for at least 25 years after treatment, far longer than the current five or 10 years standard in most European countries, said Bjorn Strander, a gynaecologist at Sahlgren's University Hospital in Sweden, who led the study.
"This is a warning to the healthcare system to keep track of these women," he said in a telephone interview. "It has not been known these women remain at risk for such a very long time."
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I'll have to inform my step-daughter.