Harvard Women's Health Watch

Ask the doctor: When should I stop getting screening tests?

By Anne Fabiny, MD

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that women generally no longer need to have Pap smears after age 65, and mammograms and colonoscopies after age 75.

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