A mother of three was blindsided by a cervical cancer diagnosis just days before her 30th birthday — despite experiencing symptoms she had dismissed as nothing serious.

Regular screening can bend the odds in your favor when it comes to four types of cancers. The science is less clear for the ...

Women aged 65 and above are still at heightened risk of cervical cancer caused by human papillomavirus (HPV), suggest the ...

If your doctor finds cervical polyps during a routine pelvic exam and Pap smear, they’ll probably take a sample of the tissue and send it to the lab to make sure it’s not cancer. They’ll ...

In 2025, the American Cancer Society estimates that around 13,360 new cases of invasive cervical cancer will be diagnosed in ...

Women 65 and older face significantly higher rates of cervical cancer-causing HPV infections than younger women, despite current medical guidelines that typically discontinue screening at 65. The ...

Patients with D polyps were younger (mean = 40.3 vs. 49.8 years, p = .009) and more likely to have abnormal cervical cytological result before polyp removal (67% vs. 21%, p = .014) as compared ...

“We can also see a cervical polyp, which does have an increased risk of cancer, when we perform an exam as opposed to the vaginal smear of an HPV test,” Dr. Greves says.

WASHINGTON — U.S. regulators have approved the first cervical cancer testing kit that allows women to collect their own sample at home before shipping it to a laboratory, according to a medical ...

U.K. study: HPV vaccine reduced cervical cancer rates by 87% in women who were vaccinated at 12 and 13 03:48. The maker of an at-home cervical cancer screening test said Friday it has won approval ...