In early December, the American Cancer Society updated its guidelines for the first time since 2020. Now, all women nationwide are eligible for at-home cervical cancer screening.

The FDA has approved three self-administered tests for the high-risk strains of HPV known to cause most cervical cancers.

In early December, the American Cancer Society updated its guidelines for the first time since 2020. Now, all women nationwide are eligible for at-home cervical cancer screening.

Less than a quarter of primary care providers employed Papanicolaou test recommendations that were consistent with screening guidelines, according to results of a recent study. Researchers surveyed ...

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 ...

An interim report developed with input from multiple medical organizations and published simultaneously in three leading gynecological journals last week provides guidance to healthcare providers who ...

A Pap smear is a type of test used to screen for cell changes that have the potential to lead to cervical cancer in women. Pap Smear. Image Credit: Iryna Inshyna/Shutterstock.com Its name originates ...

You may have heard about HPV testing and self-swabbing to collect the sample. Does that work as well? Here are the ins and outs of this newer option.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — For the second time in less than three years the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has updated its recommendation of how often women should get cervical cancer and ...

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 ...

The Pap test has already reduced the incidence of cervical cancer by more than 60%. Now it may become a key step in the early detection of two other gynecological malignancies — ovarian and ...