Pap smears used to be a no-brainer: You’d see your ob/gyn for your yearly wellness check and would get an annual Pap in the process. But recommendations changed in the last few years and now it’s not ...

Times do change. It was only 25 years ago when the medical literature started reporting that the human papillomavirus (HPV, the “wart virus”) appeared to be the cause of cervical cancer. Since that ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- New Pap test guidelines issued by a panel of experts could mean fewer return visits and less anxiety for the millions of women whose cervical-cancer results come back inconclusive.

Efforts to improve terminology for reporting results of cervical cytology and to develop more effective algorithms for cancer diagnosis and treatment of women with abnormal Pap smears were initiated ...

CHICAGO — New Pap test guidelines issued by a panel of experts could mean fewer return visits and less anxiety for the millions of women whose cervical-cancer results come back inconclusive. Currently ...