Cervical cancer screening is one of the best success stories in health care. Since the 1970s, the death rate from cervical ...

Northwell Health partnered with Stacker to explore how a new Pap smear alternative may help prevent deaths from cervical ...

A mum-of-three and breast cancer survivor is fighting for her life after being diagnosed with stage 3C ovarian cancer, less ...

Miriam Gard, 43, had her first brush with cancer at only ... a tissue sample (biopsy) may be done to confirm the diagnosis. “Unlike cervical cancer, ovarian cancer cannot be detected through ...

it is essential that any suspicious visible lesion on the cervix be carefully sampled via cervical brush or biopsy or, when necessary, conization to rule out a cervical malignancy. Figure 1.

A biopsy is needed to identify cervical cancer. Cervical cancer diagnosis and grading ... into a woman’s vagina and takes a sample of surface tissue with a special brush. The sample is examined to ...

A further 35 per cent of women don't attend breast screening appointments and 31 per cent snub cervical smear test ... ultrasound scans and biopsy. Most people who need further tests won't ...