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The FDA approves first US at-home tool as a Pap-smear alternative
Women can use a wand to collect a vaginal sample, then mail it to a lab that will screen for cervical cancer. The device will ...
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The FDA approves first U.S. at-home tool as a Pap-smear alternative
Rates are down dramatically since Dr. Georgios Papanicolaou published a 1943 paper on how to use the Pap smear for screening, and it then became common. At-home cervical cancer screenings are ...
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Indigenously developed HPV test kits for cervical cancer screening launched in Delhi
The currently available methods of screening of cervical cancer include Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid (VIA), Papanicolaou test (Pap test or Pap smear) and HPV DNA testing, she stated.
Nature5d
Specificity, sensitivity and cost
The Papanicolaou (Pap) smear is commonly used to screen for cervical cancer and since its introduction in organized screening programmes in resource-rich countries it has been successful in ...
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Affordable, made-in-India HPV test kits rolled out to fight cervical cancer
The current methods of screening for cervical cancer include Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid (VIA), Papanicolaou test (Pap test or Pap smear) and HPV DNA testing. These tests are costly and ...
Cancer Research21d
Abstract 4960: Knowledge, attitudes, and practice patterns of primary care physicians towards cervical cancer screening in Yerevan, Armenia
As of 2020, only 41% of women aged 30 to 60 have been screened by Papanicolaou test (Pap smear) in the past three years, which is below the screening rate of similarly resourced countries. This study ...