Several countries now offer at-home vaginal swabs to detect HPV status in place of traditional cervical cancer screening, but ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Teal Health to provide the nation's first at-home test kit to screen for cervical cancer.

Cervical cancer is preventable, but only if you catch it early. Cultural and personal barriers have often meant that women ...

And, yes, ask your health care provider about whether you can do a self-collected swab for HPV as part of your regular cervical cancer screening.

In May, the FDA approved a self-swab alternative to the pap smear. Doctors say it's just as effective at spotting cervical pre-cancer and cancer.

Published today in the Journal of Primary Health Care, the research reveals that HPV self-testing (a vaginal swab) was widely accepted and preferred by people for cervical screening, but gaps were ...

Women and people with cervixes should have the option to use a self-swab human papillomavirus (HPV) test as part of a cervical cancer screen, the United States Preventative Services Task Force ...

Women in England who have missed screening appointments will be mailed at-home HPV testing kits in a potentially "game-changing" bid to increase participation in cervical screening.

Smears and Swabs Smears and Swabs I read with interest the article "Quantitative Image Analysis Gives More Power to the Pathologist."1 However, I must draw your attention to an inaccuracy. In the ...

Molecular clues collected from routine cervical swabs can be used to identify people who have ovarian cancer. In future, these epigenetic patterns could help doctors predict which individuals are ...