The Gallatin City-County Health Department (GCCHD) offers free pap smears, HPV tests and mammograms to individuals in Gallatin County. This program has been available for over 20 years, but Alyson ...

As provinces across Canada change their main method of screening from the Pap smear to HPV testing ... beginning with pilots at 10 primary care sites later this month. The HPV test that replaced the ...

"If I could have had something similar to a smear test that said, 'Jackie, your DNA shows you're likely to have womb cancer' - that would have been so stress free." The new PCR (polymerase chain ...

Pap smears don’t test for cancer: Over half of the women surveyed mistakenly believed that Pap smears test directly for cancer. In fact, the primary purpose of a Pap smear is to detect abnormal cell ...

More than half of women surveyed mistakenly believed that Pap smears test for cancer. In reality, the primary goal of the test is to detect abnormal cell changes in the cervix — changes that ...

Ontario will replace its main method of cervical cancer screening next week with a more accurate and less frequent test, but the dreaded speculum ... tests in the province will replace Pap tests, also ...