Testing for high-risk human papillomaviruses every five years – even with a self-collected sample – is the “preferred screening strategy” for cervical cancer starting at age 30, according to a new ...

Cervical cancer is often curable when diagnosed in its initial stages and is highly preventable if pre-cancerous abnormalities are caught early. Yet many individuals diagnosed with cervical cancer in ...

Offering human papillomavirus (HPV) self-testing in primary care appears to boost cervical cancer screening rates compared with usual care, a cluster-randomized trial in New Zealand showed. A ...

Testing menstrual blood for human papillomavirus (HPV) could be a "robust alternative or replacement" for current cervical cancer screening by a clinician, finds a study from China published by The ...

Offering universal human papillomavirus (HPV) self-testing in primary care was both non-inferior and superior to clinician-sampled Pap smear. Underscreened and marginalized groups saw the most benefit ...