Cervical cancer screening is one of the best success stories in health care. Since the 1970s, the death rate from cervical ...

Innovations in screening for cervical neoplasia include speculoscopy, which is intended to supplement the Pap smear, and automated ... if the second Pap was abnormal, and speculoscopy followed ...

Mom of 3 Molly Pardue was diagnosed with cervical cancer after demanding a pap smear — and underwent chemotherapy and other ...

"In my midthirties, I had an irregular pap smear, which required me to get a cone biopsy, which is a procedure to remove abnormal tissue from the cervix," she wrote. Never miss a story — sign up ...

Colposcopy alone or with directed cervical biopsy is recommended for initial evaluation of abnormal or suspicious Pap smears. Colposcopy is safe and generally well tolerated by most women during ...

If your Pap smear comes back with abnormal results, you'll likely require further testing. Common procedures that follow an abnormal Pap test are a colposcopy and a biopsy. Colposcopy: During a ...

Regular screening and vaccination against HPV can significantly reduce the risk of developing cervical cancer.

Biopsy: If a Pap smear or HPV test shows abnormal results, a biopsy may be performed. This involves taking a small tissue sample from the cervix or vagina for further examination. A biopsy can ...

"April had an abnormal Pap smear that showed some higher, high-grade cells, and then, she had a biopsy that showed cancer. The good news is that all the lymph nodes were clear. There were, however, ...