Cervical cancer screening rates remain low and HPV vaccination rates are also low, despite the FDA approving self-collection ...

Cervical cancer remains the most common cancer in women of the developing world, largely as a result of a lack of screening. The gold standard screening test for cervical cancer, the Pap smear, has ...

Despite programmed screening in the Netherlands, the decrease in incidence of cervical carcinoma lags behind. We analysed screening results preceding carcinoma cases, timeliness in case of follow-up, ...

The aim of this study is to evaluate different options for introducing liquid-based cytology (LBC) and human papillomavirus (HPV) testing into the UK cervical cancer screening programme. These include ...

About 80 million U.S. women ages 25 to 65—or 1.2 million women across Alabama—should be screened periodically by their health care providers for cervical cancer. At present, the standard way to do ...

Nov. 8, 2002 — Although the common teaching is that doctors should not use lubrication when obtaining specimens for cervical cytology, women have complained that the pain is significant. Two separate ...

DNA screening for the virus that causes cervical cancer is more effective than Pap-smear-like methods for detecting pre-cancerous cells, even in women vaccinated against the virus, Australian ...

NEW YORK (MedscapeWire) May 01 — Consensus guidelines for management of abnormal Papanicolaou (Pap) smears, developed at a conference sponsored by the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical ...

In India, where cervical cancer is a leading cause of deaths among women, regular screening is the best way to detect the ...

Editor's note: anyone with a cervix can get a Pap smear, but for this article, we included sources who generally referred to these people as women. Going to the doctor for any type of exam can feel ...

Women affected by a review of cervical smears in the Southern Health Trust have said they are "angry, frustrated and scared" for their future. About 17,500 patients in the trust are to have their ...

LBC is a new method of cervical cell sample preparation. Samples are collected in the usual way, but using a brush-like device rather than a spatula. The head of the device is rinsed or broken off ...