A New Talker Research study found that women avoid seeing doctors for reasons like fear of blame, dismissal, or misdiagnosis ...

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

But many women avoid a smear test like the plague ... The cervical cancer smear test, also known as a Pap test, looks for abnormal cells in the cervix that could develop into cervical cancer.

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 ...

Dr Lily Wong, a family doctor at The London Medical Clinic in Hong Kong, agrees that a “major barrier” to women getting Pap smears is the discomfort associated with the procedure. The Pap ...

Regular Pap smear screenings are a vital part of women’s healthcare, helping detect and prevent cervical cancer at an early stage. World Cancer Day, observed every year on February 4, serves as a ...

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). National Population ...

Not only do many women struggle to find access to this exam, but many patients find the method for HPV screening — most commonly known as a pap test or pap smear — to be uncomfortable and ...

The Pap smear has been used for more than half a century now and has saved the lives of many women by detecting changes in the cervix before it becomes cancer. There are however a few limitations ...