A Pap smear is a cervical cancer screening commonly done at the same time as a pelvic exam. An HPV test also can be done at the same time. Anyone with a cervix should get their first Pap smear at age 21 and another every three years before turning 30. Those ages 30 to 65 should ...
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 ...
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 ...
OMG I just googled “cervical screening in the Czech Republic and it shocking that any female over the age of 15 is offered not just a cervical smear but a full on internal examination every year (thankfully the transvaginal scan is optional). That is morally wrong as at that age the pr...
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...
Cervical cancer is preventable if effective screening measures are in place. Pap-smear is the commonest technique used for early screening and diagnosis of cervical cancer. However, the manual analysis of the pap-smears is error prone due to human mistak
Of the 106 patients over 18 years of age, 32.1% had a Pap smear within the last 3 years. The need to improve HPV vaccine and Pap smear rates in refugee populations is clear. While focusing on the designated refugee exam may have improved HPV vaccine rates, it is important to examine ...