If you can’t remember when you had your last pap smear, there’s a chance you might be due for another. So how often should you get a pap smear, exactly? We asked Dr. Margo Harrison, MD, OBGYN and Head ...

Many of us would choose the pain of a dentist’s chair over the most compassionate and sensitive gynecologist’s examination table. You endure a cold speculum — which is torture enough — then it does ...

J Low Genit Tract Dis. 2014;18(1):1-7. In a clinical setting, this combination of maintained sensitivity with increased specificity would lead to fewer office visits and procedures. Our cost analysis ...

Cervical cancer screening is one of the best success stories in health care. Since the 1970s, the death rate from cervical cancer has dropped by more than half. "The goal of the screening is to detect ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - It's one of the most common questions OB-GYNs get, do you still need pap smears after a hysterectomy? The answer depends on why you had the surgery. Pap smears screen for cervical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The star revealed in an Instagram post that her latest abnormal pap smear and colposcopy revealed that she had high-grade cervical ...

The recurrence score and chemotherapy treatment in node-positive, ER+ early-stage breast cancer patients in Israel. Background: This population based study investigates the patterns of care women with ...

I was 23 when I had my first pap smear, and I didn’t even know what the procedure tested for. I was 23 when I had my first pap smear, and I didn’t even know what the procedure tested for. While out ...

An abnormal Pap, or an HPV diagnosis, does not mean you have to cut yourself off from sex completely. That wouldnt be realistic, would it? Whats important is that you continue to use protection during ...