The phone rings. It's your OB-GYN's office. "Your Pap smear came back abnormal." … What does that mean? As if going to an annual appointment that brings apprehension and anxiety to even the most… ...

Women On TikTok Are Discussing How Painful Cervical Biopsies Are — Here's What An OB-GYN Had To Say. BuzzFeed. ... A few years ago, I found out that the results of my annual Pap smear came back ...

New pap smear alternatives are coming to a doctor’s office near you—And They Skip The ... Christine Greves, M.D., is an ob-gyn at the Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies in Orlando ...

Ob/Gyn: 1 in 5 New Cases of ... but Pap smears 20 years ago didn’t test for HPV.” At the time, she says, experts believed that cervical cancer was caused by the herpes virus, ...

Pamela Berens, MD, an ob/gyn at the McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, told MedPage Today that providers gather more information than just the Pap smear when performing the test.

Women will have an alternative Pap smear option starting this fall, the New York Times reported. The new option is a swab to screen for cervical cancer, rather than the speculum, which has been ...

The nurse who gave me my results over the phone suggested I get another Pap smear next year, just to be sure. I have been with the same man for the past 18 years. My OB-GYN said the problem with ...

It would take a massive public relations war against the unspeakable cancer to make the Pap smear a routine part of cervical cancer screening — a war waged in part by Black OB/GYN Helen Dickens ...

The screening tool for cervical cancer, the Pap smear or Pap test, is incredibly accurate. Women should be screened every 3-5 years, beginning at age 21 through age 65 (or older) if they are healthy.

Getting your moles checked by a dermatologist is a good idea at any age. But as you enter your 40s, your risk for skin cancer ...