BACKGROUND Cervical Papanicolaou (Pap) smear screening is an effective method of detecting cytological changes in the cervix before they lead to cervical cancer. However, the quality of a Pap smear can be compromised by inflammatory exudate, inadequate cellularity or failure to sample the transformation zone. We evaluated the effect of routine cervical cleaning on Pap smear quality. METHODS I...

Background: The Papanicolaou test (Pap test) is most sensitive and widely used screening test for early diagnosis of various cervical lesions including infections. Objectives: To know the utility of Pap smears in diagnosing cervical infections and to study the pattern of infections on Pap smears occurring in this region of India. Material and Methods: Retrospective analysis of Pap smear reports...

OBJECTIVES To determine the factors that influence risk of cervical cancer after three consecutive negative Pap smears. METHODS A cohort study was conducted using data from the British Columbia Cervical Cancer Screening Program and British Columbia Cancer Registry. Analysis was based on a one percent sample of women aged 20-69 years with Pap smears enriched with all invasive cervical cancer c...

OBJECTIVE To examine the use of mammography and Papanicolaou (Pap) smear among women with diabetes and to identify predictors of adherence to these tests. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We analyzed data of a nationally representative sample of Spanish women. Diabetes status was self-reported. Screenings were assessed asking whether they had a mammography (> or =40 years) and a Pap smear (18-69 yea...

Background: Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in Botswana. More than two-thirds of cases occur in HIV-infected women, in a nation with a high HIV prevalence of 17%. Even though cancer screening is free in health facilities, cervical cancer screening is low. The objective of this study was to assess the knowledge and attitudes of University of Botswana female students on cerv...

Squamous cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma and adenosquamous carcinoma comprise the most common cancers of the uterine cervix. Cervical cancer is one of the common cancers in women, especially in certain parts of the world, as Sub-Saharan Africa, Central America, South Central Asia and Melanesia [1]. In several countries the incidence of cervical cancer was reduced after the introduction of effect...

The Papanicolaou smear remains the most common method for the detection of precancerous changes in cervical cytology. However, the introduction of a liquid-based cytology (LBC) technique expands the possibility of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) diagnosis, and permits detection of precancerous changes and human papillomavirus (HPV) simultaneously. In the pilot study reported here, usin...

In recent years, although the widespread screening of cervical cancer, especially the systemic use of the Papanicolaou (Pap) smear (Cronje, 2005), cervical cancer remains the second most common cause of death from cancer in women worldwide (Sreejata et al., 2012), China accounts for 29% of the 51,000,000 new cases of cervical cancer each year (Kim et al., 2009). But due to cervical cancer scree...

Cervical dysplasia and invasive cervical cancer can be diagnosed by detection of epithelial cell abnormality (ECA) in a cervical scrapping from a clinically suspicious women by means of cervical cytology study popularly known as pap test. Aim and objective of the present study to different cervical lesion with the help of pap smear and categorize them according to the Bethesda system. The sampl...

conclusions our study shows that prevalence of hpv infection in cervical biopsy samples collected from suspected patients in khouzestan province is slightly higher than other provinces of iran. since hpv cervical infection, is an indicator for the host cervical cancer progression, parallel with pap smear test, pcr detection of hpv dna in biopsy of suspected cases is recommended. results out of ...