Trends Over Time in Pap and Pap-HPV Cotesting for Cervical Cancer Screening

Screening for HPV Outperforms Pap Test for Cervical Cancer

Guglielmo Ronco, MD, of the Center for Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention in Turin, Italy, and colleagues pooled more than 175,000 women, aged 20 to 64, and followed them for a median of 6.5 years. The four trials used were from England (ARTISTIC), Italy (NTCC), the Netherlands (POBASCAM), and Sweden (SWEDESCREEN). A total of 107 patients had invasive cervical cancer using cancer registries and...

Screening for cervical cancer by Pap smear.

Between November 1986 and February 1988, 2806 cervical smears were taken from every patient attending the Obstetrics and Gynaecology consulting clinics at The Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) Karachi. Of 2806 smears 2774 (98.9%) were adequate, cytology was positive in 35, a prevalence rate of 12.6 per 1000. The highest incidence was in the age group of 2544 years. Eighty percent patients wit...

Screening for Cervical Cancer Using Automated Analysis of PAP-Smears

Cervical cancer is one of the most deadly and common forms of cancer among women if no action is taken to prevent it, yet it is preventable through a simple screening test, the so-called PAP-smear. This is the most effective cancer prevention measure developed so far. But the visual examination of the smears is time consuming and expensive and there have been numerous attempts at automating the...

Knowledge about Cervical Cancer and Pap Smear and the Factors Influencing the Pap test Screening among Women

BACKGROUND Although the Pap smear is known as one of the effective methods to detect the cervical cancer, a large group of women are reluctant to do the test because of various reasons. Therefore, we carried out this study to determine the level of knowledge about cervical cancer and Pap smear and the factors influencing the Pap test screening among women. METHODS In this cross-sectional stud...

Cervical cancer with a normal Pap.