A Pap smear is a simple, quick, and relatively painless screening test. Itsspecificity,which means its ability to avoid classifying a normal smear as abnormal (a "false positive" result), while very good, is not perfect. Thesensitivityof a Pap smear, which means its ability to detect every...
Age trends in Pap smear usage - Mitchell, Medley - 1987 () Citation Context ...ate of cervical cancer screening (Straton, Holman & Edwards, 1993). There was also ansincrease in screening rates from 1971 (129 smears per 1000 women aged 20-69) to 1986s(181 smears per 1000 women) (=...
By using selected sociodemographic, health-care utilization, health knowledge, and health behavior variables in age-specific logistic regression models, we discriminated between women who had had a Pap smear within 3.5 years and those who had not. Several variables predicted Pap screening status ...
Majority of the patients showing positive smear were 35-44 years old, highly sexually active (grand multiparous) and were belonging to lower socioeconomic status. Conclusion: It was concluded that grand multiparous and poor patients in between the age range of 35-44 years are at high risk to ...
3. To study Pap smear among study subjects. Methods: A cross sectional study community based study was carried out in villages under #145;Parol#146; Primary Health Centre of Thane district, Maharashtra, India. A total of 415 married women in reproductive age group were interviewed and examined...
Age specific rates for Papanicolaou smears by the Victorian Cytology (Gynaecological) Service (VCGS) during 1971 to 1986 are presented. There was a dramatic increase in smear rates for women aged less than 35 years during the period studied. Conversely, for postmenopausal women maximum smear rates...
A regular Pap smear can identify abnormal cervical cells before they develop into cancer. Even if cervical cancer has started to develop, a Pap test can detect it and lead to early treatment that can preserve fertility. READ MORE: What’s the right age to start getting Pap smear tests?
The Cliffhanger- Where you just sit there patiently and wait for the last cling-on to drop off, because if you wipe now it’s going to smear all over the place. The Back-To-Nature Poopie- This poopie may be of any variety but is always deposited either in the woods or while hiding...
BMC Infectious Diseases (2024) 24:182 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-023-08942-1 BMC Infectious Diseases RESEARCH Open Access Hsa-miR-194-5p and hsa-miR-195-5p are down-regulated expressed in high dysplasia HPV-positive Pap smear samples compared to normal cytology HPV-positive Pap...
Pap smear, laboratory method of obtaining secretions from the cervix for the examination of cast-off epithelial cells to detect the presence of cancer. The Pap smear, named for Greek-born American physician George Papanicolaou, is notably reliable in detecting the early stages of cancer in the ut...