HeLa cells get their name from the person they belonged to: Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman and mother of five who in 1951 got diagnosed with cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital. While Lacks ...

9,10 Current cervical cancer screening guidelines by the US Preventive Services Task Force include the options of cervical cytology (Pap) alone, high-risk HPV screening alone, or Pap in ...

Sufficient scientific evidence exists to recommend HPV DNA testing in the triage of women with equivocal cytology and in ... and implemented in cervical cancer screening programmes.

These include: HPV tests pap tests (cytology) co-testing (Pap and HPV) Starting at age 30, UPSTF now recommends self-collected HPV tests for cervical cancer screening. According to UPSTF ...

Ontario has changed its cervical cancer screening to improve test accuracy and reduce frequency of screenings. In Canada, it ...

As part of this milestone, Noul has also officially joined the NVIDIA Healthcare & Life Sciences (HCLS) partner ecosystem, ...

Ontario doctors will pivot to testing for HPV first when screening for cervical cancer, rather than conducting a cytology test. The test will feel the same for the patient. It will still involve a ...

The advent of effective antiretroviral therapy (ART) has increased the lifespan of many people living with HIV. As a result, ...

Results from the NRG Oncology GOG-0263 Phase III clinical trial testing the addition of cisplatin-based chemotherapy to ...

also known as Pap smears or cervical cytology, on March 3, following similar moves in British Columbia and Prince Edward Island. Both tests aim to detect cervical cancer and involve collecting a cell ...

A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reasserts the HPV vaccine’s effectiveness in preventing cervical cancer in young females. The February 27 report builds on ...