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Reading the HPV test was easier than a Pap smear. So, HPV testing was integrated into the screening programs. When HPV testing is done along with the Pap smear it is known as Co-test. Collection ...

The biggest change: Women ages 30 to 65 should get an HPV test every five years instead of a Pap smear every three years. Pap smears, HPV testing, and co-tests of both are all still effective ...

In the second study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, over 12,000 women aged 32 to 38 years were randomly assigned to receive either an HPV test plus a Pap smear or, as a control ...

but many patients find the method for HPV screening — most commonly known as a pap test or pap smear — to be uncomfortable and invasive. On Thursday, a company seeking to address this problem ...

A Pap test, or Pap smear, is currently used to detect such abnormal cells. The World Health Organization says persistent human papillomavirus (HPV) infections of the cervix cause 95 per cent of ...