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Doctors Say Go Ahead and Pass on DIY Pap Smears
DIY isn't a term I like to associate with my health — I'm cool with a DIY manicure, but when it comes to something as important as screening for cancer I'm not doing it myself. After an online pharmacy in the UK launched new DIY pap smear tests that screen for cervical-cancer causing HPV, medical professionals are cautioning women against them. But the reasoning is a little counterintuitive.
CBS's Gift Guide: Give Your Woman a Pap Smear This Year
I don't know what's worse about this PSA from CBS. That it's airing now, in 2009, or that the creator described his a-ha moment like this: "This project on pap smears started during dinner at Il Mulino, a well-known Italian restaurant in Manhattan's West Village."
Scheduling a pap smear isn't bad advice per se, but it makes a terrible Christmas present.
On Tap? A Test to Replace the Pap
The annual Pap smear could become a relic if a new DNA test proves as effective as promised. According to a study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, a new screening involving DNA could be better than all other tests in detecting HPV and cervical cancer.
For women over 30, the test would only have to be performed every three, five, or 10 years, which would mean an end to the annual smear.
What Do You Know About the Pap Smear?
I'm sure going for your annual exam at the gynecologist isn't top on your list. I don't mind the breast examination, but spreading eagle for that lovely Pap smear pretty much bites it. I usually just close my eyes and wish for it to be over without really caring too much about what the doc is doing down there.
A Test That's Better Than the Pap?
Women have been getting Pap tests for over 60 years to test for cervical cancer. Now two studies show that the test that detects HPV, a virus that can cause certain types of cervical cancer, may be far more effective at catching malignancies.
One of the studies tested more than 10,000 women between the ages of 30 and 69.
Going to the Gyno - Which is Worse?
As women, we all have to go for our yearly visit to the gynecologist. It's no fun, but we know it's good for us. Somehow talking about how much it sucks makes me feel better, so I want to know, when you go for your annual gynecologist appointment...
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Back HEALTH GUIDE REFERENCE FROM A.D.A.M During a Pap smear, cells from the outside and the canal of the cervix are retrieved by gently scraping the outside of the cervix. The Pap smear is performed to detect cancerous or precancerous conditions of the cervix. Review Date: 2/19/2008 Reviewed By: Peter Chen, MD, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA.Pap smears and cervical cancer
Back HEALTH GUIDE REFERENCE FROM A.D.A.M The Pap smear is both a visual inspection and a culture of the cervix. An instrument called a speculum holds the walls of the vagina open so that the cervix may be viewed and a swab of cells obtained for culture and analysis. Review Date: 12/1/2005 Reviewed By: Sharon Roseanne Thompson, M.D., M.P.H., Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.Cervical cancer
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