Self-collection means swabbing your vagina to get a sample of cells to test in the lab. In this case, the sample is used to ...

I have a condition called vaginismus that makes traditional cervical cancer screening nearly impossible.

HPV self-collection was approved by the Federal Drug Administration in May 2024 as a primary test for cervical cancer — meaning that a patient does not need to have a Pap test or pelvic exam for the ...

Federal guidelines are expanding the options for cervical cancer screenings beyond the often-disliked Pap smear. According to new recommendations released Monday by the Health Resources and Services ...

Cervical cancer is often curable when diagnosed in its initial stages and is highly preventable if pre-cancerous abnormalities are caught early. Yet many individuals diagnosed with cervical cancer in ...

Earlier this year the Food and Drug Administration approved a new human papillomavirus test that allows for self-collection of samples in a health care setting, thereby removing what many say is an ...

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The human papillomavirus is a common sexually transmitted disease that has the capacity to grow into warts and, sometimes, different types of cancers, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...