wk2td1 – Shelby is a 32 year-old mother of two
wk2td1 – Shelby is a 32 year-old mother of two.
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Shelby is a 32 year-old mother of two, who has smoked 1 PPD for the last 15 years, and who comes to see you today for her yearly well woman exam in your family practice clinic. She has a family history, in a single paternal grandmother of breast cancer at age 52. She also has a history of an abnormal cervical cancer screening three years ago requiring colposcopy. Given her history please consider the following: Choose one screening test that might be considered either now or in the next few years of Shelby’s care. Define the test, its positive predictive value, reliability and validity. Dr. Wiredu and class, Cervical cancer is the third most common cancer in women worldwide and is a preventable disease (Fonseca-Moutinho, 2011). Shelby has already had an abnormal cervical cancer screening resulting in a colposcopy and is at an increase risk for cervical cancer since she is a smoker. The screening test that I would recommend for Shelby is a Papanicolaou smear, commonly known as a “pap smear”.