A new study involving data on more than 1 million women finds the HPV test outperforming the standard Pap test in assessing cervical cancer risk. Researchers at the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI ...

HPV self-tests allow patients to collect a sample themselves, instead of having a healthcare provider collect it.

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 ...

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Testing for human papillomavirus (HPV) may be the best way to know whether a woman is at risk of developing cervical cancer in the near future, according to a new study. Negative HPV tests provided ...

Many women are likely familiar with the Pap smear, but some might not know about the HPV test (human papillomavirus test). Pap smears and HPV tests are the most common ways to detect cervical cancer, ...

For many women, an annual Pap test was part of becoming an adult. Now doctors are wondering whether that test is the best way to screen for cervical cancer, once the leading cause of cancer deaths for ...

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 human papillomavirus screening test is far more accurate than the traditional Pap test in detecting cervical cancer. The first round of the Canadian Cervical Cancer Screening Trial concluded that ...

The human papillomavirus screening test misses twice as many women who develop cervical cancer as the combination of HPV and Pap testing, according to new research. The study, conducted by researchers ...

Testing for cervical cancer using HPV testing in addition to the Pap smear is unlikely to detect cancer cases that wouldn't be found using HPV testing alone. A new paper in the Journal of the National ...

A man named Georgios Papanicolaou invented the Pap smear, but Elizabeth Stern helped figure out how to interpret it. stevanovicigor/iStockPhoto Today, women ...