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(HealthDay)—Most primary care physicians advise women to get "Pap" tests for cervical cancer screening more often than clinical guidelines recommend, new research reveals. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-doctors-pap-happy-survey.html Cancer Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:38:08 EST news284661481 (HealthDay)—Recent changes to cervical cancer screening guidelines that recommend less stringent testing may result in a higher incidence of a particularly aggressive type of cervical cancer in young women, a new study suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-pap-guidelines-aggressive-cancer-young.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:50:01 EST news281900054 the surgical tying or severing of fallopian tubes to prohibit pregnancy – have less frequent Pap smears, which puts them at an increased risk for cervical cancer, according to research recently released by a team that included Cara A. Mathews, MD, a gynecologic oncologist at the Program in Women's Oncology at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-connetion-tubal-ligation-cervical-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:06:35 EST news277380347 Using cervical fluid obtained during routine Pap tests, scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have developed a test to detect ovarian and endometrial cancers. In a pilot study, the "PapGene" test, which relies on genomic sequencing of cancer-specific mutations, accurately detected all 24 (100 percent) endometrial cancers and nine of 22 (41 percent) ovarian cancers. Results of the experiments are published in the January 9 issue of the journal, Science Translational Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-scientists-pap-fluid-ovarian-endometrial.html Cancer Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:00:01 EST news276958980 (HealthDay)—More young women are following recently revised U.S. guidelines for getting Pap tests—the standard screening for cervical cancer—but many women who have had a total hysterectomy still get the tests unnecessarily, new government studies reveal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-cdc-women-unneeded-paps-post-hysterectomy.html Cancer Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:46:46 EST news276439598 (HealthDay)—For women who have undergone a hysterectomy for endometrial cancer, abnormal Papanicolaou (Pap) test results do not aid in diagnosing recurrent disease, according to a study published in the January issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-limited-pap-endometrial-cancer-recurrence.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:00:01 EST news275927506 (HealthDay)—Most women need testing for cervical cancer only every three to five years, rather than annually, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-frequent-pap-safe-women-obgyn.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:14:42 EST news270144875 Nearly 38 percent of lesbians polled in a national survey were not routinely screened for cervical cancer, putting them at risk of developing a highly preventable cancer, according to a University of Maryland School of Medicine study being presented at the 11th Annual AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research. Cervical cancer is caused by a sexually transmitted virus, the human papillomavirus (HPV), and can be detected through regular Pap smears. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-lesbians-routinely-screened-cervical-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:00:02 EST news269704216 (HealthDay) -- Testing for HPV, the human papillomavirus linked to cervical cancer, can predict which women will stay cancer-free for a decade or more, a new study shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-hpv-pap-long-term.html Cancer Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:30:01 EST news262891092 A new study by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University suggests that HIV-positive women may be able to use new methods that can help to safely reduce the frequency of screening in some women, similar to practices accepted in the general population. The findings will be published in the July 25 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), a theme issue on HIV/AIDS. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-hpv-hiv-positive-women-frequent-cervical.html HIV & AIDS Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:14:15 EST news262188844 A large national sample of women diagnosed with cervical cancer between 2000 and 2007 finds lack of insurance was second only to age as the strongest predictor of late stage at diagnosis, a gap the authors say is likely attributable to lack of screening. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-lack-linked-advanced-stage-cervical.html Cancer Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:00:02 EST news261922553 The American Cancer Society (ACS), the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP), and the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) have released new guidelines for the prevention and early detection of cervical cancer. The guidelines generally advise a reduction in the number of tests women get over their lifetime to better ensure that they receive the benefits of testing while minimizing the harms, and include a preference for co-testing using the Pap test and HPV test for women age ages 30 to 65. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-health-groups-issue-cervical-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:00:07 EST news250954657 In what is believed to be the first study of its kind to examine the relationship between pre-existing depression (with and without anxiety) and the amount of time to diagnostically resolve an abnormal mammogram and/or Pap test, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found suffering from depression was not associated with a prolonged time to diagnostic resolution in a vulnerable population of urban women. These findings currently appear in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-depression-anxiety-linked-resolution-abnormal.html Health Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:12:40 EST news241189951 The American Cancer Society (ACS), the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP), and the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) have proposed new guidelines for the prevention and early detection of cervical cancer. The proposed guidelines, which are now posted for public comment, generally advise that women reduce the number of tests they get over their lifetime to better ensure that they receive the benefits of testing while minimizing the risks. The proposed guidelines also include a preference for co-testing using the Pap test and HPV test for women age 30 and over. After a public comment period that begins immediately and a multi-stakeholder symposium in November to discuss the proposed recommendations among a broad group of experts, the recommendations will be revised and incorporated into a final guideline from the American Cancer Society, anticipated in mid-2012. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-health-groups-issue-cervical-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:38:48 EST news238239300 Annual cancer tests are becoming a thing of the past. New guidelines out Wednesday for cervical cancer screening have experts at odds over some things, but they are united in the view that the common practice of getting a Pap test every year is too often and probably doing more harm than good. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-annual-cancer-screening-urged.html Cancer Wed, 19 Oct 2011 04:00:01 EST news238213870 There's more news on cancer screening tests - this time for women. Scientists advising the government say a Pap test is a good way to screen young and middle-aged women for cervical cancer, and it's only needed once every three years. But they say there is not enough evidence yet to back testing for HPV, the virus that causes the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-doctors-pap-cervical-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:44:15 EST news238092240