Cervical cancer screening is one of the best success stories in health care. Since the 1970s, the death rate from cervical cancer has dropped by more than half.

I was mad at God, mad at the world, and mad at all the healthy people who didn’t have to get their life put on hold,” said ...

No woman I have ever met looks forward to getting a Pap smear, the standard test for cervical cancer. Asked whether they would rather see a dentist about a cavity, or a gynaecologist for a Pap ...

Wart, or Human Papilloma Virus changes are a relatively common finding on smear tests. Around two thirds of sexually active young women become exposed to and transiently carry HPV. It exists in ...

Many women don’t know about a self-collected cervical screening test despite the simple swab being readily available in ...

A Pap smear or Pap test is a screening test for cervical cancer. There’s currently no easy and reliable early screening test for ovarian cancer. A Pap smear or Pap test doesn’t help doctors ...

Screening guidelines recommend starting Pap smears at age 21 and integrating HPV tests after 30. Vaccination against HPV is highlighted as a crucial preventive measure, with efforts underway to ...

“That's really a tricky thing to juggle being so young, it's not something I had on my to-do list any time soon,” says Pardue. If she hadn’t pushed for the pap smear that discovered her ...

A cervical screening test, also known as a smear test or Pap test, is a common procedure that collects cells from the cervix to check for signs of abnormal cell changes. Its aim is to prevent cervical ...

KANGAR: As many as 60% of Malaysian women have never undergone a pap smear check for cervical cancer screening, based on the 2019 National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS).