Experts estimate that over 13,000 new cervical cancer diagnoses occurred in the United States in 2025, accompanied by over 4,000 cervical cancer-related deaths. Five-year survival for patients ...

Annalisa (Nalis) Merelli is a contributing writer at STAT focused on boys’ and men’s health. Pap smears must be a strong contender for the worst best thing to happen to gynecology. The test, alongside ...

Share on Pinterest What do the new cervical cancer screening guidelines say? We outline three key changes. Image credit: Maria Korneeva/Getty Images On December 4, 2025, the American Cancer Society ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Cervical cancer screening is about to get a lot more convenient. That’s because the latest cervical ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the country’s first at-home HPV screening device. The test is designed as an alternative to the Pap smear, a procedure that detects precancerous ...

One solution could be to offer self-sampling HPV tests so that women could complete cervical screening at home. A 2024 YouScreen trial by King's College London investigated the effectiveness of this ...

New federal guidelines will make it easier for women to get screened for cervical cancer. According to the new recommendations by the Health Resources and Services Administration, women between the ...

A new at-home self-collection device is taking aim at the screening gap for cervical cancer, and new research, spearheaded by a University of Colorado School of Medicine faculty member, demonstrates ...

Cervical cancer screening guidelines in the United States have evolved considerably over the past few decades, reflecting advances in understanding how cervical cancer develops, the pivotal role that ...

Although direct-mail self-sampling significantly increased cervical cancer screening, the opt-in approach only minimally increased screening. Within a US health system, cervical cancer screening ...

Cervical cancer kills 4,300 American women annually. Most of these deaths are preventable. Teal Health's at-home screening test is changing that calculus.