Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cervical cancer risk was higher for women without colposcopy within 12 months of abnormal Pap or HPV test result ...

Background: The colposcopy service is a key component in the UK Cervical Screening Programme. Over 120,000 women are referred to the service annually, however up to 25% of women fail to attend their ...

Attendance for cervical screening is socially graded, but little is known about patterns of attendance for colposcopy following an abnormal screening result. We know of no analyses of socioeconomic ...

The debate continues regarding the best management for women with low-grade abnormal cervical cytology attending colposcopy. We compared psychosocial outcomes of alternative management policies in ...

Pre-cervical cancer refers to atypical changes in the cervix. Experts grade these changes based on the extent of the cellular abnormalities. Not everyone with atypical cervical cells develops cervical ...

The most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States (an astounding 42.5 percent of U.S. adults between 18 and 59 reported an HPV infection between 2013 and 2014, according to the ...

A smear test itself is a standard procedure. All women aged 25-49 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are invited for a cervical screening every three years (while in Scotland it's every five years ...

The quasi-totality of social scientists who studied screening for cervical tumours identified such screening with a single method: the Pap smear (exfoliative cytology). This article explains that this ...