Northwell Health partnered with Stacker to explore how a new Pap smear alternative may help prevent deaths from cervical ...

Cervical cancer screening is one of the best success stories in health care. Since the 1970s, the death rate from cervical ...

January is Cervical Health Awareness Month and Cervical Cancer Screening Month, an opportune time to share some statistics, ...

Cervical cancer screening traditionally relies on the Pap smear and HPV-DNA tests. While effective, these methods are fraught with challenges, including variability in human interpretation, false ...

"In our eyes this was such a significant improvement that, in good conscience, we could not continue to accept conventional pap smears," Galup says. That decision caused problems for the lab ...

Traditionally, many women have been screened for cervical cancer with cervical cytology – also known as Pap tests or Pap smears – in ... cancer screening tool for ages 30 to 65, according ...

In this week’s Healthier Together, KIRO 7′s Ranji Sinha sat down with Dr. Nicole Saint Clair, Executive Medical Director of Regence BlueShield, to discuss the issues around cervical cancer. Dr. Saint ...

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 ...

Data is from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Editor’s note: Pap smears are a cervical cancer screening tool and are recommended for people with cervixes, not all of whom identify ...