ARKANSAS, USA — For years, part of an annual exam for women included a Pap smear. A Pap is simply a scraping of cells from the surface of the cervix. The purpose is to screen for precancerous ...

In addition, your doctor may recommend a pelvic exam and pap smear to check your reproductive organ health if you're between 21 and 65. Men will need a testicular exam to check the size and shape ...

LOS ANGELES - For generations of women, it's been an ingrained medical ritual: Get a Pap test every year. Now two influential groups of medical experts say that having cervical cancer screening ...

"The Pap smear is only part of your annual exam," says Cosmo Radio health expert Jennifer Wider, M.D. She says it's important to have a clinical breast exam once a year, ...

Cancer survivor encourages others to get annual exam Jeanine Posey was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in February of 2020. She told WCTV that it’s been a long, difficult road to get to where she ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Most women who have undergone hysterectomy for non-cancerous diseases can forgo annual Pap smear exams, according to new research by University of Michigan Health System ...

Continue to get cervical cancer screenings through a blood test and/or in combination with a Pap exam, as well as an HIV test. For those in their 50s Contrary to myth, cervical cancer is not just ...

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 Just because Pap ...

Jasmin McKee used to "put off" her annual pap smear, which screens for abnormal cells in the cervix, because the test made her nervous Woman, 26, Given Bleak Prognosis After She 'Brushed Off' Post ...