Each year, approximately 3.5 million women in the United States have an abnormal Pap test that requires some form of further evaluation or treatment. This week’s issue of the Journal of the American ...

Clinicians should be wary of over treating women who present with abnormal pap smears in combination with cervical cancer precursors, according to new cancer guidelines co-authored by a physician from ...

Abnormal Pap test results. The American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP) (2014) provides evidence-based guidelines for the management of abnormal Pap test results. 7 ...

J Low Genit Tract Dis. 2014;18(1):1-7. In a clinical setting, this combination of maintained sensitivity with increased specificity would lead to fewer office visits and procedures. Our cost analysis ...

An abnormal Pap smear means some percentage of your cervix cells appear abnormal in shape or size. In most cases, an abnormal Pap smear does not indicate cancer and is in fact caused by HPV. If you ...

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 ...

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. Margo Harrison, MD, OBGYN and Head ...

A pap smear, sometimes called a pap test, is a procedure that screens for cervical cancer — and is typically done during an annual well-woman visit with a gynecologist. In this article, we discuss how ...