If you feel pretty damn proud of yourself for scheduling a Pap smear or pelvic exam, we don’t blame you. This kind of preventive care is incredibly important but also easy to put off or cut from your ...

Three million people receive abnormal Pap smear results each year, but less than one percent are diagnosed with cervical cancer.

An annual well-woman visit with your gynecologist allows you to discuss your health status, sexual practices, contraception needs, and get a breast exam, among other things— so it’s still important ...

When it comes to detecting cervical cancer, the Pap test has been the gold standard for more than 60 years. But as the role of human papillomavirus virus (HPV) in contributing to the cancer has ...

Women should get a pap smear every three years because it can detect early warning signs of cervical cancer.

No one likes the sound of any medical test coming back as “abnormal,” and furthermore, no one likes the sound of human papillomavirus (HPV). When I heard those two words in the same sentence, I was, ...

after hysterectomy?| In the late 1940's, Dr. Papanicolaou developed the Pap smear technique. The purpose was to screen for cervical cancer and identify it at a curable stage. In the late 1940's, Dr.

An increasing number of women will no longer need annual testing for cervical cancer, say guidelines issued Thursday — the third such advice to doctors in the last year. The American College of ...

Every two years, Australian women are encouraged to front up to their GPs for that brief but uncomfortable appointment we all dread: the pap smear. But not for much longer. The new generation of ...

Women in the United States have been accustomed to having a cervical cancer screening test (or Pap smear) every year with their annual exam. Pap smears have improved the health of American women, ...

Millions of young women have reportedly had intrusive and uncomfortable gynecological exams that they didn’t really need, according to researchers behind a new study published in JAMA Internal ...

The FDA approved the first at-home cervical cancer screening in May. Texas is the eighth state to have access to the test as ...