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In guidelines that may encourage more women to get screened for cervical cancer, a leading health task force has backed ...

Doctors routinely advise that women undergoing screening for cervical cancer receive Pap smears every three years beginning at age 21. Now, beginning at 30, women have a new option.

Women in their 20s should still get a Pap test every three years. But after that — from age 30 to 65 — women can get an HPV test every five years, the panel said.

Women should have the option of taking their own test samples for cervical cancer screening, an influential health panel said ...

HPV, or human papillomavirus, is very common and is spread through sex. Most HPV infections clear up on their own, but ...

Women and people with cervixes should have the option to use a self-swab human papillomavirus (HPV) test as part of a ...

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has endorsed self-testing as a viable option for cervical cancer screening.