Over the past 60 years, the mortality from cervical cancer — once one of the most common and lethal cancers in women in the United States — has decreased dramatically. Much of the reduction has been due to the widespread use of the Papanicolaou test, which has enabled clinicians to detect cervical intraepithelial neoplasia before it progresses to cervical cancer and to detect cervical cancer at...

OBJECTIVE A modified liquid-based techniques known as the "LiquiPrep (LP) system" requires neither expensive equipment nor complicated specimen preparation. The aim of this study was to assess the applicability of the LP for use in a developing country. METHODS Cervical cytology specimens were collected from 777 women, using the Cervex-Brush. The brush was first smeared on a glass side for co...

Evaluation of the efficacy of screening programs involves the comparison of morbidity or mortality rates between screened and unscreened populations. Such comparisons are made most convincingly by means of experiments (1, 2), exemplified by the study of screening for breast cancer carried out by the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York (HIP) (3). However, there are serious practical diffic...

Aspergillus is an opportunistic fungus present in humid environments, whose natural environment is in soil, hay and compost. It is a frequent contaminant in the clinical laboratory. Because of this, the fungus is often inhaled, affecting those with an underlying pulmonary disease or immune deficiency. Fungal genitourinary tract infections are relatively common. A rare Aspergillus spp cervical i...

Method: A comprehensive literature search was conducted from the websites of Pubmed Central, the US National Library of Medicine’s digital archive of life sciences literature (http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov), and Google Scholar. And All articles displayed using the search words “Aspergillus and cervicovaginal smear” were included in this review. Books that published relevant articles in this ...

In 1941, Georgios Nicholas Papanicolaou first reported that microscopic evaluation of vaginal smears might be a useful approach for detecting uterine cancer1. His work eventually led to the establishment of the Pap smear for cervical cancer screening, which is the primary reason that most high-income countries have witnessed a major decline in cervical cancer mortality2–4. More recently, discov...

Hospital Physician May 2007 15 I n 1941, George Papanicolaou revolutionized the detection and management of cervical cancer with the introduction of cytology-based screening.1 Although it took 20 years to be fully incorporated into accepted medical protocols, the Papanicolaou or “Pap smear” test has dramatically reduced the incidence of cervical cancer in developed countries. Between 1950 and 1...

OBJECTIVE To compare the occurrence of Trichomonas vaginalis as demonstrated by culture and by Papanicolaou (PAP) smears in a sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic. SETTING The largest out-patient venereological clinic in Denmark. SUBJECT AND METHODS As the prevalence of trichomonal infestation has decreased considerable in recent years direct microscopy of vaginal wet mounts is no long...

Introduction Cervical cancer is the most common gynecological cancer and a leading cause of cancer death in women in Nigeria. This study was aimed to assess the knowledge, perception, and practice of cervical cancer prevention among female public secondary school teachers in Mushin, Lagos. Methods This was a cross-sectional study carried out among female secondary school teachers in Mushin, L...