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Dramatic Cervical Cancer Screening Decline During Pandemic

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During California’s pandemic-related stay-at-home order from mid-March to mid-June 2020, cervical cancer screenings at a large health system in the state declined by about 80% compared with the same timespan a year earlier, recently analyzed data have shown.

Investigators from the CDC and Kaiser Permanente Southern California examined data from about 1.5 million women treated at Kaiser Permanente in 2020 and roughly the same number seen during the previous year. Cervical cancer screening rates dipped 8% for women aged 21 to 29 years during the first 2 months of 2020 compared with the same period in 2019. But during the stay-at-home order, screening rates among women in this age group dropped by 78% and remained 29% lower for the next 3 months compared with 2019 rates during the same time periods.

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During California’s pandemic-related stay-at-home order from mid-March to mid-June 2020, cervical cancer screenings at a large health system in the state declined by about 80% compared with the same timespan a year earlier, recently analyzed data have shown.

Investigators from the CDC and Kaiser Permanente Southern California examined data from about 1.5 million women treated at Kaiser Permanente in 2020 and roughly the same number seen during the previous year. Cervical cancer screening rates dipped 8% for women aged 21 to 29 years during the first 2 months of 2020 compared with the same period in 2019. But during the stay-at-home order, screening rates among women in this age group dropped by 78% and remained 29% lower for the next 3 months compared with 2019 rates during the same time periods.

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Credit Designation Statement: The American Medical Association designates this Journal-based CME activity activity for a maximum of 1.00  AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to:

  • 1.00 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program;;
  • 1.00 Self-Assessment points in the American Board of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery’s (ABOHNS) Continuing Certification program;
  • 1.00 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program;
  • 1.00 Lifelong Learning points in the American Board of Pathology’s (ABPath) Continuing Certification program; and
  • 1.00 credit toward the CME of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program

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