The reading programs at Rhode Island College, Providence College and Roger Williams University selected the book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, as required summer reading for incoming freshman last year. This book is a nonfiction biography of a poor, black, working mother of five children who died of cervical cancer at the age of 31. The work is a masterpiece of invest...

Background & aim: Pap smear is a screening procedure for cervical cancer. The incidence and mortality rate of cervical cancer has decreased up to 90% in the regular screening in women aged 20-65 years. This study aimed to investigate the Pap smear reports of pathology laboratories in Ahvaz, Iran. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 1,006 Pap smear reports were collected from pathology labor...

CONTEXT Newborn screening for cystic fibrosis (CF) is included in many routine programmes but current strategies have considerable drawbacks, such as false-positive tests, equivocal diagnosis and detection of carriers. OBJECTIVE To assess the test performance of two newborn screening strategies for CF. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS In 2008 and 2009, CF screening was added to the routine ...

OBJECTIVES This study examined the level of knowledge and barriers towards cervical cancer screening of female university students. METHODOLOGY A cross-sectional design was used for 287 female students at a tertiary institution located in Selangor, Malaysia. A name list of all students in the all faculties were obtained from each faculty's registrar and the ethics committee of the Faculty of ...

BACKGROUND Cervical cancer is the leading female cancer in Bhutan. This study describes the level of cervical cancer knowledge and screening behaviors among female university graduates attending the National Graduate Orientation Program (NGOP), 2012. METHODS A cross-sectional study of female graduates attending NGOP was conducted using self-administered anonymous questionnaire developed throu...

UNLABELLED This article is a comparative study of two screening methods for pre-invasive lesions of the cervix. The Papanicolaou (Pap) smear, an old and tested screening method, is compared with the findings from visual inspection of the cervix following acetic acid (VIA) wash. VIA is a new screening method being advocated by the World Health Organization as an alternative to Pap smear in low-r...

BACKGROUND Visual inspection of cervix after application of acetic acid (VIA) is an effective screening tool for cervical cancer in low resource settings, but its low specificity leads to high referral rates. Adjunctive testing may overcome this drawback. AIMS This pilot study was aimed to assess test performances of VIA, human papillomavirus (HPV) testing and Pap smear, individually and in s...

BACKGROUND Cervical cancer is a preventable disease with a regular screening program. Many studies have reported a large number of barriers that women had for the first time, but this study decided to find other barriers for the second time pap smear. METHODS In this qualitative research, data were gathered through in-depth interviews and expressed through conventional content analysis in the...

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...

SCREENING, DIAGNOSIS AND STAGING SCREENING 886 Papanicolaou (Pap) Test 886 Pap Smear Classification System 887 Problems Associated with the Pap Smear Test 887 Cytyc 888 AutoCyte 889 Morphometrix Technologies 889 Automated Analysis of Pap Smears 889 AutoCyte 889 Morphometrix Technologies 890 NeoPath 890 Neuromedical Systems 891 Cost and Reimbursement Issues Pertaining to Automated Screening 892 ...