I would like to know how many Pap smears were carried out in the USA
in 2001 or 2002.

If you can find a national breakdown of the results of the Pap smears
into the following categories, it would be worth an additional $10 to
me.  These are are all Pap smear gradings, with Normals being about
94% and ASCUS being about 6% (from one lab I asked):
(1) Normal smear
(2) ASCUS
(3) AGUS
(4) LGSIL
(5) HGSIL
(6) Carcinoma in situ

Sources I would expect you to cover:
American College for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology
http://www.asccp.org
Cytyc, Inc -- this information is probably in one of their annual
reports
www.cytyc.com

I need the information within 12 hours.

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Clarification of Question by victorchua-ga on 22 Apr 2003 15:32 PDT

The question remains open--though the answer must be more difficult to
find than I anticipated!

I thought this would be dead simple to find!! However... 

The only information I managed to track down was:
"About 50 million smears are done in the US each year and most are
normal, according to the study....
The study found that clinically important, abnormal Pap smear results
are uncommon in women who wait up to three years to be screened for
cervical cancer following a normal Pap smear. Over a three-year period
following a normal smear, the incidence of new smears interpreted as
high-grade SIL or worse was 66 out of 10,000 women who were 30 years
old and younger; 22 out of 10,000 for women between the ages of 30 and
49; 15 out of 10,000 for those ages 50 to 64; and 10 out of 10,000 for
women who were 65 years old or older.
Age-adjusted incidence rates of high-grade SIL or worse were similar
for women screened 9 to 12 months (25/10,000); 13 to 24 months
(29/10,000); and 25 to 36 months (33/10,000) after a normal smear."
http://www.ucsf.edu/daybreak/2000/07/31_obgyn.html