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 ...

Dr. Dennis Otuaro’s leadership of PAP has so far been most remarkable in its breakthroughs and significant achievements, the developments which have overshadowed the baseless smear campaigns of ...

SINGAPORE – Lower-income Singaporeans will be able to register for a free colonoscopy, mammogram and Pap test in March and April, as part of an initiative to encourage early detection of some ...

I grew up hearing nothing but horror stories about the dreaded smear test. From older women around me scaring me senseless with chatter about 'MASSIVE, METAL SPECULUMS' to a seemingly relentless ...

Ontario is shifting its method to detect cervical cancer, now opting to provide testing for HPV instead of a pap test. Faiza Amin speaks with Dr. Amanda Selk on the difference between the tests ...

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 ...

Fortunately there are options for women to have themselves checked early on in order to diagnose the disease: the pap smear and the human papillomavirus (HPV) test. A pap smear involves scraping the ...

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 ...

A Papanicolaou test, also known as a Pap smear or Pap test, checks for abnormal cervical cells which could lead to cancer if left untreated, but they don't test for HPV itself. An HPV test, however, ...

TORONTO — Ontario will replace its main method of cervical cancer screening next week to a more accurate and less frequent test ... will replace Pap tests, also known as Pap smears or cervical ...