Rakeb Tesfatsellassie, a junior at Georgia Tech and native of DeKalb County, is developing a home screening test for cervical ...

Your pap smear test results should be available on MyChart within a few days to a week. A pap test can be normal, unclear, or abnormal. Normal means that there is no sign of cell changes on your ...

T heir website states, "All you need to do is insert a swab a few centimetres into your vagina and rotate it for 20 to 30 seconds." In a traditional Pap smear, a medical provider uses a plastic ...

Get a pap smear every 3-5 years "Screening guidelines are based on age," says Guster. Usually, a woman doesn't get her first pap smear until she turns 21 years old.That's in part because most ...

Before going into your first appointment, people usually describe Pap smears to first-timers as uncomfortable. "It's uncomfortable," they say, "but it doesn't hurt." However, for many, the ...

Pap smears should not hurt but can feel uncomfortable in the moment, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Light bleeding afterward is normal, but pain and cramping aren't and should not be ignored.

A new study released July 3rd, called the HPV FOCAL trial, compared the HPV test to the Pap smear in a group of 19,000 Canadian women and found that in many cases, the HPV test detected abnormal ...

Pap smear results are usually reported according to grade of abnormality. We found that over 90% of women with cervical cancer had a Pap smear result of moderate grade or worse.

Peter Dazeley/Getty Images If you can’t remember when you had your last pap smear, there’s a chance you might be due for another. So how often should you get a pap smear, exactly? We asked Dr ...

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends screening for cervical cancer in women age 21 to 65 years via a pap smear every 3 years or, for women age 30 to 65 years who want to ...