Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Results from a study of more than 330,000 women showed that most can safely undergo screening for cervical ...

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 ...

As Prince Edward Island replaces Pap tests with HPV (human papilloma virus) testing to screen for cervical cancer, an expert says that route is more effective in determining the level of risk.

Most women with cervical cancer have not participated in Pap-smear screening. Self-sampling of vaginal fluid in combination with high-risk HPV testing may be a method to increase the attendance rate.

Testing for cervical cancer using HPV testing in addition to the Pap smear is unlikely to detect cancer cases that wouldn't be found using HPV testing alone. A new paper in the Journal of the National ...

A new report from StatCan found that less women are having Pap smear tests. (Image via Getty Images) Less women are having Pap smears, according to new data from Statistics Canada (StatCan). In a new ...

According to Future Market Insights (FMI) in a recent market analysis, the Global HPV testing and Pap Test Market Size was valued at US$ 2.2 billion in 2021 and is predicted to reach US$ 15 billion by ...

Pap smears, long the gold standard for cervical cancer screening, may be used less frequently under new guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. HPV causes the vast majority of ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many U.S. primary care doctors are out of step with guidelines on Pap testing for cervical cancer -- largely because they overuse the test, according to a study published ...