Women ages 30 and older can now use a swab to collect their own vaginal samples to screen for cervical cancer, according to new guidelines from a national health task force. Draft recommendations ...

Women, have you been putting off a visit to the gynecologist? Unfortunately, cervical cancer doesn’t put things off. “If you put off screenings, early detection of precancerous lesions can become ...

A new proposal recommends replacing routine pap smears with HPV testing every five years for women over 30, signaling a serious shift in cervical cancer screening guidelines. Reading time 3 minutes ...

Teal Health’s Teal Wand enables people ages 25-65 years old to screen for cervical cancer at home — no speculum or stirrups required. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photo: Teal Health) According to ...

Testing for high-risk human papillomaviruses every five years – even with a self-collected sample – is the “preferred screening strategy” for cervical cancer starting at age 30, according to a new ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The USPSTF said women aged 21 to 29 years should receive a Pap test every 3 years. Women aged 30 to 65 years ...

After decades of good news in the fight against cervical cancer — marked by decades of steady declines in cases and deaths — a new report suggests that some women are being left behind. Thanks to ...

In a recent study published in Nature Medicine, a group of researchers evaluated the effectiveness and outcomes of various cervical cancer screening strategies for women living with Human ...

Learn more about this important subject on the Prevention/The Not Old Better Show podcast. 4,300 women. That’s how many deaths the U.S. will see this year from a form of cancer that is entirely ...

A late-stage trial of women with cervical cancer at low risk of progression found that having a simple hysterectomy instead of a radical hysterectomy resulted in similar outcomes in terms of keeping ...

After decades of decline, cervical cancer is on the rise among millennial women. A study published in JAMA in 2022 revealed that the incidence of the disease since 2012 has risen by an average of 2.5 ...

Cervical cancer rates, long on the decline, are climbing among low-income women in the United States. Cervical cancer was once the leading cause of death for American women, according to the American ...