Sentences with phrase «papillomavirus pap»
Cosette Wheeler, PhD, at The University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center, led the research team and the efforts of the New Mexico Human Papillomavirus Pap Registry, the data source used in the study.
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Starting at age 21, women should be screened regularly for cervical cancer with a Pap test and possibly in combination with an HPV (human papillomavirus).
At present, the standard way to do that is a Pap smear alone, or co-testing using both a Pap smear and a human papillomavirus (HPV) test.
She beat the disease and is now working with the Gynecologic Cancer Foundation to educate women about human papillomavirus (HPV)-- a group of viruses that cause the vast majority of cervical cancer cases — and the importance of regular Pap tests to screen for cervical cancer.
The most common reason for undergoing a colposcopy is having an abnormal Pap test result, particularly one that, when tested for DNA of human papillomavirus, yielded a positive result.