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Cervical cancer prevention and screening
will still need to attend their routine cervical smear tests (performed during preventive gynaecological examinations). Based on regular...
Gynaecological examination
cancer screening is done using the cervical smear test which is taken by your gynaecologist during the preventive examination. This...
Screening process
during her regular preventive checkup. Cervical smear test is part of this examination. The gynaecologist sends the cervical smear...
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Personalised invitations of Czech citizens to cancer screening programmes
aged 25 and over) cervical smear test once a year as part of a routine gynaecological...
Over-50s still face cervical cancer risk
to women in their 50s and 60s, so go for a smear test when invited." Dr Szarewski added: "This large study adds to the recent...
Debate over role of HPV test in cervical screening
who tested positive for HPV after a 'low-grade' smear test result did not go on to develop any more severe pre-cancerous changes or...
HPV test picks up more abnormal cell changes than regular smear test
picks up more abnormal cell changes than regular smear test... while the remainder only had a conventional smear test. They were then followed up for an average of 3.3 years. The researchers...
HPV testing and vaccination could cut cervical screening to twice in a lifetime
cervical screening method than the current smear test, which looks for abnormal cells. Professor Peter Sasieni, a Cancer Research...
HIV drug lopinavir 'may prevent cervical cancer' by targeting the virus that causes the disease
give women is to take up their invitations to smear tests when invited." Co-author Dr Lynne Hampson added that the results are...
HPV home tests for cervical cancer prove effective in study
at least as sensitive as conventional cytology (smear testing) in detecting cervical cancer or pre-cancerous changes, a study of Mexican... helpful to developing nations, where smear testing is not widely available and deprived areas of some rich countries. The... home test, smear test, cervical...
Single HPV test 'predicts cancer risk for up to 18 years'
women's smear test samples for the human papillomavirus (HPV) can predict who will develop early... papillomavirus, cervical smear test, HPV...
Cervical smear tests 'could also detect ovarian and womb cancer'
smear tests 'could also detect ovarian and womb... called cytology, which most people know as the 'smear test'. Cytology involves taking a sample of cells from the cervix with a small... screening, cervical smear test, ovarian cancer, womb...
Cervical cancer: DNA-based test more accurate than repeat smear (“Pap”)
need of treatment more accurately than a repeat smear test... cervical cancer. Cells collected in the smear test are examined under the microscope. If abnormalities are seen, a patient may be... cancer, cervical smear test, HPV test, atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASC-US),...
Screening for HPV infection alone more accurate than Pap Test in the detection of cervical cancer, especially in younger women
cancer, cervical smear test, human papillomavirus (HPV), HPV test, Papanicolau smear test, Pap...
Urine test could prevent cervical cancer
testing may be as effective as the smear test at preventing cervical cancer, according to new research by University of... cancer is up to 15 times more common and smear testing largely non-existent. The NHS cervical screening programme tests for so...