(BPT) - Many women know that getting a Pap test regularly from their health care provider is a good way to check for signs of cervical cancer, the second most common cancer in women worldwide. What ...

Advertisements can be very persuasive -- whether they’re promoting a snack food, a toy or even a medical test. If you’ve watched much television lately, you may have seen a commercial touting the ...

ACOG has published a practice bulletin that addresses the management of a normal Pap with positive high-risk HPV. [2] Since the recommendations of using cervical cytology and HPV testing were released ...

Getting your first "Pap smear" is a dubious rite of passage into American womanhood. Though we've all heard that we're supposed to get tested each year, we may not know lots of other important things ...

(CNN) — Q: The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is releasing new guidelines on cervical cancer screenings. What’s changed? A: In the 1930s, cervical cancer was the deadliest women’s cancer in ...

The pap smear (or pap test) is one of the cornerstones of women's health. It was introduced in the 1940's as a way to screen for abnormal cervical cells. Starting at the age of 21 women are ...

For women over 21, the pap smear is an unpleasant and often painful part of a visit to the gynecologist. New research shows that the less-invasive human papillomavirus (HPV) test is a more accurate ...

Many women can safely extend their cervical cancer screening interval to three years, according to a new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. "For the last 15 years guidelines have ...

Dear Doctor K: I’ve had a Pap test every year for 20 years, since I was about 25. It’s always normal. Do I still need one every year? Dear Reader: The answer used to be yes. The reason was that doing ...

Roche Diagnostics originally scored an approval to market its Cobas HPV diagnostic for use along with the older cervical-cancer Pap test, but a request it just filed with the FDA could give the drug ...

Days after a government advisory panel rolled back its recommendations on mammography screening for breast cancer, another influential group issued revised guidelines on the use of Pap smears to ...

Oct. 11, 2005 (Seattle) -- A liquid-based Papanicolaou test ( SurePath) may not improve the detection rate of cervical adenocarcinomas compared with the traditional Pap test, according to research ...