Women will have an alternative Pap smear option starting this fall, the New York Times reported. The new option is a swab to screen for cervical cancer, rather than the speculum, which has been the ...

The guidelines, published Jan. 5 by the Health Resources and Services Administration, now recommend that average-risk women ...

January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, and there's no better time to have a conversation about a disease that affects ...

The human papillomavirus is a common sexually transmitted disease that has the capacity to grow into warts and, sometimes, different types of cancers, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

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