View category for people with the Atkinson surname. Atkinson is a surname of Anglo-Scots origin with Norman antecedents. It derives from the pet name Atkin, which is a diminutive of Adam.
If you are 70 years or over and have had two normal Pap smears in the last five years, you do not have to keep having Pap smears, unless you wish to do so.Women who are over 70 years who have never had a Pap smear, or those who request a Pap smear, of course could have a pap smear.Remember that, with the advent of HPV testing that goes along with the papsmear test, women over the age of 30 need only to have a pap with HPV every 3 years, if both of negative. Patricia Geraghty, NP, Advanced Practice Nursing, answered. A woman over 30 years old, who has had normal pap smears and negative HPV tests, should continue to have pap smears every 5 years. She may stop having pap smears at age 65.
Screening is not recommended for women under the age of 21. In 2010, recent Pap testing (within three years) dropped among women aged 30 years and older without a hysterectomy, primarily due to declines among women aged 65 years and older (from 73.5 percent in 2000 to 64.5 percent).