Routine cervical cancer screening typically requires patients to receive Pap smears every three years. On Dec. 10, a national task force put forth a new screening recommendation for women 30 and older ...
If you’re a woman or person with a cervix aged 25 or over, you’ve probably already experienced a cervical cancer screening at your local GP. Here’s why the new HPV self-collect test could save ...
Cancer screening describes any procedure that aims to detect precancerous changes, such that cancer can be treated before it becomes malignant. Mammography and cervical smear tests are routine ...
Cervical cancer deaths among women younger than 25 have plummeted in recent years, the likely result of vaccinating adolescents against human papillomavirus, or HPV, high-risk strains of which ...