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title: DNA Alternative to Pap Smear Sparks Medical Debate
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# DNA Alternative to Pap Smear Sparks Medical Debate

Bloomberg Businessweek • April 15, 2014

> A high-tech screening tool for cervical cancer is facing pushback from more than a dozen patient groups, who warn that the genetic test could displace a simpler, cheaper and more established mainstay of women's health: the Pap smear.  
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> But a number of women's groups — including the American Medical Women's Association and Our Bodies Ourselves — warn that moving to a DNA-based testing model would be a "radical shift" in medical practice that could lead to confusion, higher costs and overtreatment.

  
**Read the full story:** [DNA Alternative to Pap Smear Sparks Medical Debate](http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2014-04-15/dna-alternative-to-pap-smear-sparks-medical-debate) by Matthew Perrone

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