A major update to federal women’s health preventive guidance will make it easier for women to get screened for cervical ...

A revolutionary development in cervical cancer screening is transforming the way millions of women approach their health care. The FDA’s recent approval of self-collection kits from leading healthcare ...

A Pap smear, also called a Pap test or a Papanicolaou test, describes a procedure that removes cells from the surface of a woman’s cervix and surrounding tissue for microscopic examination. Once a ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the country’s first at-home HPV screening device. The test is designed as an alternative to the Pap smear, a procedure that detects precancerous ...

(CNN) — Cervical cancer is one of the most preventable forms of cancer. Effective screening can detect precancerous changes years before cancer develops. But more than 4,300 women will die from ...

Self-administered HPV tests involve inserting a plastic tube — similar to a tampon — into the vagina, then twisting the ...

In May 2024, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved two new cervical screening tests for detecting human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes almost all cervical cancers. Both allow individuals ...

Credit: Teal Health. The Teal Wand is an at-home vaginal self-collection device intended to test for 14 types of high-risk HPV that have the highest risk for causing cervical cancer. Eighty-six ...

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Share on Pinterest What do the new cervical cancer screening guidelines say? We outline three key changes. Image credit: Maria Korneeva/Getty Images On December 4, the American Cancer Society (ACS) ...