Cervical cancer is largely preventable through vaccination and regular screening, but it is the fourth most common cancer in women across the globe. This chronic condition is caused by persistent ...

Smear tests - or cervical screenings, as they're also often called - come around every three years for most women. When you reach the age of 25, you're called in for the procedure, and it's important ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Regular Pap smears are a vital part of women's health care. Women need to get a pap smear every three years [Health] Taking care of your health is incredibly important, and one of the best ways to do ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Many women who test positive for HPV with negative cytology do not receive follow-up testing. Clinicians must ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – HIV-infected and uninfected women with normal cervical cytology (Pap test) and a negative test result for oncogenic (tumor inducing) human papillomavirus DNA at study enrollment had ...

Cervical screening by the Papanicolaou (Pap) test substantially reduces the incidence of invasive cervical cancer, but this cancer continues to be a major cause of death in women. Combined Pap and ...

If you've been putting off scheduling your Pap smear-maybe for months, maybe longer-take a deep breath. There's no judgment here. While some women breeze through these appointments, many of us find ...

Too few doctors follow U.S. guidelines for human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and cervical cancer screening, according to a new study. A survey of 366 obstetricians-gynecologists in the United ...

(Mar. 11, 2008) — A significant drop in abnormal Pap test results happened after girls and women were given a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, according to a researcher at the University of ...