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Cervical cancer could be checked without a pap smear

By Hicbd
Tue Sep 3 2024 12:22 pm

"Now, a handful of health care companies are preparing to introduce a new model for cervical cancer screening and prevention that would circumvent the speculum: self-collection, in which a woman swabs her vagina in the doctor’s office, using only a narrow swab that looks similar to the one used during a Covid test. Once the sample is collected, a lab would test it for the strains of human papillomavirus, or HPV, most likely to cause cervical cancer. A key change in HPV screening has made the technique possible: Labs are now able to test using samples taken from the vaginal walls, as opposed to from the cervix itself."

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/15/well/pap-smear-cervical-cancer-test-alternative.html
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2019/women-who-have-option-of-using-hpv-self-sampling-kits-more-likely-to-seek-cervical-cancer-screening-new-analysis-finds

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Healthcare Women / Girl / Feminism Issues Business / Invention Idea Impact / Philanthropy / Social Good Investing Capital Medical Devices / Supplies / Biomedical Engineering Global Health Gynecology Cervical Cancer

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