(Reuters) - Women can safely skip the unpleasant speculum-based exam for human papillomavirus screening and instead test for the virus themselves using a vaginal swab, two new studies confirm.

Vaginal swabs are useful for first-line HPV screening The researchers used ... US who have cervical cancer did not undergo a screening test in the past ten years. We should try to make it a ...

A doctor holds a swab from an HPV self-testing kit. (CBC) A provincial flow chart sent to doctors shows patients who test positive will be asked to screen again in two years. After those two years ...

The HPV test that replaced the Pap test in Ontario last week still involves inserting a speculum into a patient’s vagina to swab their cervix, which Vahabi said can be triggering for people who ...

so we can miss things on the Pap test. ... HPV testing missing rate is close to zero. … It's very effective in determining your risk," Alexander noted. Both tests are performed by taking a swab of the ...

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Testing of all the samples for 15 high-risk HPV types showed that “using swabs is equivalent to speculum-based collection,” Harper said. The swab test results, as reported in Preventive ...

nurse or midwife inserting a speculum into the patient's vagina to swab their cervix for a sample that will be sent to a lab. But starting next week, the lab will test for HPV, the primary cause ...