Fine-needle aspiration biopsies of soft tissue tumors are often not fully diagnostic on conventional Papanicolaou or Giemsa stains. Often, more useful information can be gleaned from preparing cell ...

BD Life Sciences-Diagnostic Systems, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, announced the launch of BD SurePath Direct to Slide. It is a liquid ...

Taking a biopsy is a standard procedure to make the correct diagnosis in patients with suspicious premalignant vulvar lesions. The use of a less invasive diagnostic tool as triage instrument to ...

A study of the options for reducing cancer incidence and mortality among women who have been treated for precancerous cervical lesions found that an annual conventional Pap smear is a cost effective ...

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 ...

Thought LeadersProfessor Attila LorinczWolfson Institute of Preventive MedicineQueen Mary University of London (QMUL) An interview with Professor Attila Lorincz from Queen Mary University of London ...

January 13, 2009 — Using human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA testing as a primary screening strategy, followed by cytological triage and repeat screening for persistent HPV type-specific infection, might ...

Cervical cancer is among the easiest gynecologic cancers to prevent, and two screening tests can help detect the disease early: the routine Pap smear and testing for human papillomavirus, or HPV. The ...

Figure 3: Smear shows a cell with cytoplasmic vacuolation (Pap stain, 400×). In this report, Gunvanti Rathod, Monica Mishra, Alisha Khan, and Mishu Mangla from AIIMS Bibinagar describe a case of a ...

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