News tagged with pap
GOP: Health test recommendations could affect care
Nov 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care - and to try to chip away support by women for President ...
Report: 20-somethings can go 2 years between Paps
Nov 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually, say new guidelines that conclude that's enough to catch slow-growing cervical cancer.
Alternative to pap test does not appear to be better for detecting cervical cancer
Oct 27, 2009 |
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A Dutch study that included nearly 90,000 women finds that liquid-based cytology, a commonly used alternative to conventional Pap tests, is not superior to Pap tests for the detection of cervical cancer precursors or cancer, ...
Less than 50 percent of women with abnormal paps receive follow-up care: study
Aug 20, 2009 |
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Less than half of Ontario women with abnormal Pap tests receive recommended and potentially life-saving follow-up care, according to a new women's health study by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital and the Institute for ...
Human papillomavirus genotype distribution in New Mexico cervical cancers
Mar 24, 2009 |
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DNA from human papilloma virus type 16 (HPV16) and HPV type 18 (HPV18) were found in the majority of invasive cervical cancers in New Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s, according to a population-based study published in the March ...
Inherited genetic cause, possible treatment found for complex lung disorder
Nov 24, 2008 |
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A tale of two sisters has helped researchers solve a medical mystery and discover a familial genetic mutation that causes an inherited form of the lung disease Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis (PAP).
