If doctors follow new cervical cancer screening recommendations then pap smears might no longer be called annual.

The new recommendations were issued by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists which were based on 30 years of various studies that show that the number

Of cervical cancer diagnosis has dropped by 50 percent.

Kirsten Parsons, who gets a pap smear done every year said, "I tend to be very proactive with all of those things and try to keep up and I've had too many friends who've gone for an annual screening of one type or another and just because they went for that screening ended up finding something."

Scientific evidence has shown that over treatment of minor abnormal pap smears in young women has lead to consequences, like pre-term labor.

Parsons also predicts that the insurance companies will stop paying for annual pap smears based on the new recommendations.

The most important thing which is to be kept in mind is that 11,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer every year in the U. S.

He also said that changing and screening guidelines will not mean more missed cervical cancer diagnosis since it usually happens to women who screen very infrequently or never at all.