LOUIS – There is a new option available for cervical cancer screening ... accessible for those who don’t get pap smears. The self-testing kits are available in the office now and are less ...

HPV screening — rather than a pap smear — is more effective at detecting cervical cancer, according to a US task force Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

The latest guidance follows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of a self-testing kit for cervical cancer last ... or a combined Pap smear and HPV test every five years, the task ...

many women have been screened for cervical cancer with cervical cytology – also known as Pap tests or Pap smears – in which cells from the cervix are collected and checked for signs of cancer.