September is Sexual Wellness Month. And in honor of the special occasion, women are celebrating their bodies by taking charge of their sexual and reproductive health. A pap smear is a medical ...

New federal guidelines have expanded the options for cervical cancer screenings to include an at-home option — and no ...

In May, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first at-home cervical cancer screening tool, developed by ...

Cervical cancer is often curable when diagnosed in its initial stages and is highly preventable if pre-cancerous abnormalities are caught early. Yet many individuals diagnosed with cervical cancer in ...

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

The incidence of death rates from cervical cancer in the U.S. has dropped almost 50 percent since the widespread use of Pap tests began in the early 1970s. But, cervical cancer still remains the third ...

New guidelines for cervical-cancer screening say women should delay their first Pap test until age 21 and be screened less often than previously recommended. The advice, from the American College of ...

When Noa Fleischacker had her first pap smear, she was struck by an unbearable, knife-like pain as soon as the speculum went in. “I literally was going to jump off the table,” Fleischacker recalled.

An increasing number of women will no longer need annual testing for cervical cancer, say guidelines issued Thursday — the third such advice to doctors in the last year. The American College of ...

At what age should a teenage girl have her first Pap smear and gynecologic exam? Pelvic exams and Pap smears are not necessary in healthy adolescent girls who are not sexually active and who do not ...