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

Fewer than half of women who tested positive for HPV with negative cytological findings returned for a surveillance co-test within 1 year as recommended, yet more than half of those who received ...

Cervical cytology tests—more commonly known as Pap smears—every three years will ... women over 65 who've had regular testing with normal results, and women of any age who've had a total ...

Occasionally, the public has been alarmed by media reports of cases of cervical cancer preceded by normal Pap smears (The Wall Street Journal. November 2, 1987:1). To savvy clinicians, this should ...

(CNN) — Testing for high-risk human papillomaviruses every five years – even with a self-collected sample – is the “preferred screening strategy” for cervical cancer starting at age 30 ...

In addition, errors in review of Pap smears have been attributed to the tedious nature of examining mostly normal slides, each of which has 200,000 or more cells. Figure 3. Dysplastic kilocytes ...