The smear taking practices of departments of genitourinary medicine were investigated by telephone inquiry. Departments seem to be broadly and equally divided into those where the smear is taken before the cervix is wiped or endocervical specimens are taken for microbiology, and those where the smear is taken afterwards. In the unit at Guy's Hospital we compared cervical smears taken in both of...

OBJECTIVE The study was planned with the purpose of examining the attitude of women who have pap-smear test for the early diagnosis of cervical cancer, factors affecting their decisions and their feelings and experiences during this period. MATERIALS AND METHODS A phenomenological method was used. Data were collected between March 2012 and April 2012 using standard and purposive samplings fro...

Cervical cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide, and over 88% of cases occur in developing countries (IARC, 2008). Cervical cancer, which is preventable and treatable, is the number one cancer killer of women in developing countries. Since the introduction of Papanicolaou (Pap) smear screening, cervical cancer prevention efforts worldwide have focused on screening women at risk of the...

The most cost effective method of prevention and detection of cervical cancer is the Pap smear. In abnormal Pap smear, colposcopy, endocervical curettage and biopsy will be done. Gold standard method in detecting cervical lesion is biopsy. Now in two ways conventional Pap smear and liquid base are routine diagnostic technique in Iran and given easily and cost-effectiveness of this method in the...

background & aim: pap smear is a screening procedure for cervical cancer. the incidence and mortality rate of cervical cancer has decreased up to 90% in the regular screening in women aged 20-65 years. this study aimed to investigate the pap smear reports of pathology laboratories in ahvaz, iran. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 1,006 pap smear reports were collected from pathology labor...

Carcinoma of the cervix is a slow growing cancer, which is preceded by precancerous lesions named cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia (CIN). The slow progression of precancerous lesions allows detecting the lesion at this stage. The cervical smear allows detecting cytological abnormalities at the microscope. The cells are taken by a spatula or a brush, smeared on glasses and stained by the meth...

Results: In this study, about 20% were not aware of cervical cancer as a disease.19% knew that Pap smear is used for detection of preinvasive cervical cancer. O About 80% of subjects did not know that it was possible to detect cervical cancer early nor were they aware of different screening methods like Paps smear and had limited understanding of the types of cervical cancer screening technique...

OBJECTIVE To correlate cervical cytology with Cervical histology. METHODOLOGY A hospital based prospective study was carried out in consecutive total forty-three patient attending oncology clinic of Kathmandu Medical College Teaching Hospital, Sinamangal, Nepal from 1st Bhadra 2061 to end of Falgun 2061 (18th August 2004-12th February 2005) during authors posting in this clinic. All patients ...

A survey was conducted among 421 undergraduates of the University of Ibadan using self-administered questionnaires probing into their risk factors for neoplastic cervical lesions, awareness of cervical cancer, Papanicolaou's smear and its utilisation. The percentage of sexually active respondents was 81.5%. Sexual exposure before the age of 20 years occurred in 51.7%. The mean age at sexual deb...