Cervical cancer is highly preventable with routine screening, but it isn't always a pleasant experience. That's why women's ...

Many women face years of delays before getting a diagnosis. Diagnosis is based on symptoms, a pelvic exam, imaging such as ...

Pap smears are, at worst, a painful, crampy, or traumatizing experience; and at best, awkward as hell. It’s only natural to ...

The Office of the Health Ombudsman (OHO) has filed disciplinary proceedings against the now-retired Brisbane doctor.

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 single mom had not had a Pap smear for 22 years because she was busy raising her kids. She urges others to prioritize ...

The pap smear is one of the most useful cancer screening tests around -- it can radically reduce a woman's risk of dying from cervical cancer. But doctors' enthusiasm for the test ...

Pap smear screening reduces cervical cancer incidence; however, most developing countries lack the resources to implement such programmes which require high coverage of women at risk, quality ...

THE thought of getting your first Pap smear can be scary, and unfortunately, this fear prevents many women from having them done until they are pregnant or sick. Pap smear tests, however, are cru ...