Cervical cancer is the most common cancer in Botswana. Little is known about women's use of Papanicolaou (Pap) cervical smear tests. The study is to explore knowledge and beliefs of 30 women about cervical cancer and Pap smear tests using the Health Belief Model. Women were recruited from ...
Women aged 21 to 70 years, had sexual activity, no history of cervical lesion or cervical cancer were considered to be eligible to the study. Information include participants’ socio-demographic background, personal data, awareness about Pap smear, about cervical cancer and HPV, sources of ...
“The Pap smear has done wonders in terms of reducing mortality from a cancer that is very treatable when caught early and almost invariably fatal when it is caught late,” says author Cesar Castro, an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate professor at Harvard M...
Cervical Pap smear study and its utility in cancer screening to specify the strategy for cervical cancer control. National Journal of Community Medicine 2011;2(1):1:49-51.Patel MM,Pandya AN, Modi J. Cervical Pap smear study and its utility in cancer screening to specify the stratergy for ...
A Pap smear is a test to check forcervical cancer. If you have a cervix and are between the ages of 21 and 65, you should have the test every 3 years. The test is performed by inserting a speculum into your vagina and collecting some cells from your cervix that are analyzed at a ...
The mainstay of cervical cancer screening for the last 60+ years has been the Papanicolaou test. The Papanicolaou test, also known as the Pap test or the Pap smear, was developed in the 1940s by Georgios Papanikolaou. It involves exfoliating cells from the transformation zone of the cervix ...
"It is also clear that the majority (82 per cent) of women who getcervical cancerhave not had regular Pap smears or have never been screened." Ms Christie said current recommendations were for women to have a Pap smear every two years, starting from the age of 20 (if sexually active) ...
"The Pap smear has done wonders in terms of reducing mortality from a cancer that is very treatable when caught early and almost invariably fatal when it is caught late," said author Cesar Castro, an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate professor at Harvard Medical School. ...
Pap SmearIntroduction: Cervical cancer is one of the commonest cancers of the female genital tract and accounts for about a hundred and ninety thousand deaths each year, most of which occur in developing countries. Early cervical screening methods have contributed to the fall of cervical cancer ...
Dr. El-Zein's perspective, HPV testing has its merits, but the change may spark unnecessary panic in women who test positive. "Our office receives calls from frightened women who have HPV but may have tested negative on a pap smear," she shares. "I thought there must be a better way....