No one wants to be diagnosed with or go through the physical and psychological toll of cancer. Which is why, sometimes, it's ...

UK woman Jasmin McKee was diagnosed with cervical cancer after mistaking her copper coil as the cause of her symptoms ...

"If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't be here to tell my story." Toni Smith from Eastwood, in Nottinghamshire, went for a routine smear test when she was 28-years-old and believes doing so saved her life ...

Researchers are one step closer to developing a simple, at-home test to prevent cervical cancer or treat it early, shows a study from University of Florida Health Cancer Center and Purdue University ...

The Bethesda classification system differentiates Pap smear cytologic categories into low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (LGSIL), which often demonstrates either a reactive lesion ...

Thus, anal Pap smears may be less accurate in regards to the degree of dysplasia present. ... Kaposi's sarcoma and invasive cervical cancer (ICC).

Pap smears are especially traumatic when providers fail to respond compassionately to patients’ pain. Bonnie Gross, who has vestibulodynia, remembers squirming on the table during her first pap ...

When a Pap smear indicates inflammation, it means that the cervical cells appear irritated. This doesn’t automatically point to cancer but can result from a number of benign or infectious causes.

The Pap smear was developed by Dr Georgios Papanicolaou and first reported in 1928. It involves a gynaecologist taking a sample of cells from the surface of the cervix during an internal exam.