In the second study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, over 12,000 women aged 32 to 38 years were randomly assigned to receive either an HPV test plus a Pap smear or, as a control ...

but many patients find the method for HPV screening — most commonly known as a pap test or pap smear — to be uncomfortable and invasive. On Thursday, a company seeking to address this problem ...

Here are all the key facts. More than 31,000 women and people with cervixes in London are being offered at-home DIY smear test kits on the NHS for the first time, in a move experts hope will boost ...

An important advantage, he adds, is that the same ThinPrep fluid can be used to test for human papillomavirus ... we could not continue to accept conventional pap smears," Galup says.

Since its introduction in the 1940s, the Pap smear, also known as a Pap test, has emerged as a vital tool in the fight against cervical cancer, significantly reducing both its incidence and ...