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During your pap smear, a healthcare provider will place a metal or plastic medical device called a speculum inside your vagina to open up and push the vaginal walls apart. This allows the doctor ...

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 ...

While an HPV test involves the same steps as a Pap smear—a speculum and a swab of the cervix—the lab tests specifically for strains of HPV, which can also lead to cervical cancer. A pelvic ...

Menopause marks the end of a woman’s childbearing years, but it doesn’t mark the end of the need for a particular screening ...

adding that most patients tend to find it less uncomfortable than a typical pelvic exam or pap smear since the ultrasound probe is smaller than a speculum. "The most important thing to do is to ...

If you have a Pap smear, your provider will insert an instrument called a speculum into your vagina, then take a small cell sample from your cervix. Be honest with your provider if you’ve had ...

HPV is a leading cause of cervical cancer in women, but 50% of people who develop the cancer are never tested. A self-collection test could help.

"In our eyes this was such a significant improvement that, in good conscience, we could not continue to accept conventional pap smears," Galup says. That decision caused problems for the lab ...

using a technique originally known as the ‘pap smear’, developed by Georgios Papanikolaou in the 1940s. This involved a speculum design pioneered (also by a man, James Marion Sims) nearly 200 ...

In the first paragraph, "A woman visits her gynecologist for her annual Pap smear. The doctor takes a cervical swab." However, a swab is used to diagnose infection. A cervical smear is the means to ...