Three million people receive abnormal Pap smear results each year, but less than one percent are diagnosed with cervical ...

Getting a Pap test isn’t exactly something most women look forward to. But when you have one done, you want to make sure you’re doing what you can to max out the benefits. During a Pap, it’s easy to ...

The FDA approved the first at-home cervical cancer screening in May. Texas is the eighth state to have access to the test as ...

The Pap test — a staple of women’s health checkups for generations — is one of medicine’s greatest success stories, saving the lives of countless women by detecting abnormal cells on the cervix that ...

Pap smears are screening tools to detect any abnormal changes in cervical cells which may indicate cancer or HPV.

The Pap smear test has been used widely for the past five decades to understand and screen for early signs of cervical cancer. The conventional test has been largely replaced by a liquid-based Pap ...

A new study published in JAMA found a higher rate of detection with HPV tests. Although most women are accustomed to having Pap smears to test for cervical cancer -- a disease that strikes 12,000 ...

Vaginal-pap-smear_G_697569099 Research presented at AAPA assesses how to decrease the number of patients who are overdue for a Pap test, including offering Saturday appointments. Introducing Saturday ...

May 23, 2005 — The current American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP) guideline for repeat Papanicolaou test (Pap smear) within two to four months after obtaining an unsatisfactory ...

A man named Georgios Papanicolaou invented the Pap smear, but Elizabeth Stern helped figure out how to interpret it. stevanovicigor/iStockPhoto Today, women ...

The Pap test has already reduced the incidence of cervical cancer by more than 60 percent. Now it may help in the early detection of two other gynecologic malignancies — ovarian and endometrial ...

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 ...