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“The Cancer Detectives,” a new American Experience documentary on PBS, tracks the fascinating and surprisingly frustrating backstory of the Pap smear, a cervical cancer screening test that’s ...

A Pap smear is an important screening tool for cervical cancer. Here's what happens during the exam.

Sutter Health said the incident occurred at the Pesetas Urgent Care in Santa Barbara, Calif., a Sansum Clinic facility. The ...

New pap smear alternatives are coming to a doctor’s office near you—And They Skip The Speculum. Gynos Explain ...

Patients may be able to now use a long swab to collect samples for HPV testing — skipping the sometimes painful pap smear A new self-administered test for HPV — the virus that causes most ...

Dr. Carla Picardo wants to clear up the confusion about pap smears. A pap smear is a routine procedure to test for cervical cancer in women. Cells are collected from a woman's cervix — the lower ...

Where Pap smears look at the cells of your cervix to see if any are precancerous, the HPV test checks for the most prominent cervical cancer risk factor, per the Office on Women's Health.

One Australian reality TV personality was rushed to surgery last week after doctors discovered she had cancer in her uterus. Anastasia Katselas, star of Gogglebox Australia, was getting a routine pap ...

While these HPV self-collection tests have several upsides, ob/gyns told MedPage Today that they don't completely replace the utility of the Pap test -- and the U.S. is still behind other ...

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has introduced a new recommendation that women should undergo HPV testing every five years, rather than a pap smear, to detect cervical cancer.