A UVA Health physician helped shape new guidelines to expand at-home testing and prevent cancer before it starts.

The guidelines, published Jan. 5 by the Health Resources and Services Administration, now recommend that average-risk women ...

New cervical cancer screening guidelines emphasize self-collection and hrHPV testing, aiming to increase screening rates and ...

Following the 2024 FDA approval of a new self-collection test to detect HPV, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force ...

The American Cancer Society (ACS) released updated guidelines today for cervical cancer screening, reflecting advances in disease detection and accessibility in the United States. The updated ...

With approximately 660,000 new cases and 350,000 deaths in 2022, cervical cancer remains one of the deadliest diseases women encounter worldwide, the fourth most common cancer in women. The vast ...

Gwinnett Ladson, M.D. is an obstetrician and gynecologist at the Meharry Clinic who also serves as Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Meharry Medical College. The phrase “health ...

For the first time, many people in the United States who should be screened for cervical cancer will have an alternative to ...

Hence, it is advisable to start screening from 3 years after the first sexual intercourse. The western medical literature ...

In May, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first at-home cervical cancer screening tool, developed by Teal Health. The wand allows patients to collect a vaginal sample themselves ...

Cervical cancer is one of the most preventable forms of cancer. Effective screening can detect precancerous changes years before cancer develops. But more than 4,300 women will die from cervical ...