A simple test can help prevent cervical cancer. It is called the Pap test (or Pap smear). The Pap test looks for abnormal changes in the cells of the cervix.
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Background:In the low resource settings of a developing country, a conventional Papanicolaou (Pap) test is the mainstay screening system for cervical cancer. In order to counsel women and to organize a public health system for cervical cancer screening by Pap smear examination, it is imperative to know the pattern of premalignant and ...
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Of the more than 50 million Pap smears performed annually in the United States, about 5% of them are abnormal. Although the need for treatment of high-grade lesions is clear, the appropriate management of low-grade lesions remains controversial. New methods of screening for cervical cancer have become available, including testing for ...
The Papanicolaou (Pap) smear is one of modern medicine's greatest success stories. Since its introduction in 1942, this cost-effective procedure has greatly reduced morbidity and mortality from cervical cancer. Despite the effectiveness of this screening ...
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Regular screening for cervical cancer via the Papanicolaou (Pap) smear and appropriate treatment when indicated can prevent over 90% of cervical cancer mortality. However, many women do not obtain regular Pap smears, and among those who do, a large percentage fail to return for follow-up when notified of ...
Background: Persistent Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is an etiologic agent in the development of cervical cancer. Despite the increasingly high prevalence of HPV, people at risk of exposure lack knowledge about the virus, its relationship to cervical cancer, and a realistic perspective regarding HPV consequences. Purpose: To describe knowledge about HPV with particular emphasis on behavioral risk and ...
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PURPOSE: To compare Papanicolaou (Pap) smear readings to visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) findings among HIV-infected women in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. METHODS: A total of 304 HIV-infected women presenting to the women's clinic at the Community Resource Center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, were screened for cervical cancer by both Pap ...
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Background:Inflammatory Pap smear is the most common report received by a gynecologist. The cervical screening algorithm for benign cellular changes on the Pap smear recommends treatment of infection if indicated and a repeat Pap smear in 4 to 6 months time. If the ...
953 ... www.nlm.nih.gov ... The Pap smear is both a visual inspection and a culture of the cervix. An instrument called a speculum holds the ...
Despite the higher risk of anal cancer among HIV-infected individuals currently there are no national or international guidelines for anal dysplasia screening. We assessed acceptance and feasibility of screening for anal intraepithelial neoplasia (AIN), the rate of abnormalities, and relationship between the presence of AIN and a history of receptive anal intercourse. ...
BackgroundThe incidence of invasive cervical cancer in HIV-positive women is higher than in the general population. There is evidence that HIV-positive women do not participate sufficiently in cervical cancer screening in Italy, where cervical cancer is more than 10-fold higher in women with AIDS than in the general population. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the history of ...
PURPOSE: To determine the factors associated with inadequate follow-up for abnormal Pap smears among a cohort of Boston women from urban academic clinics. METHODS: Subjects were women > 18 years with abnormal cervical cytology between February 1999 and April 2000. Inadequate follow-up was defined as lack of ...
Endometrial cancer remains, today, a serious problem, especially for postmenopausal women. The aim of our study was to evaluate the utility of the transvaginal ultrasound examination in the management of the endometrial abnormalities in postmenopausal women. We included, in a prospective cohort, 49 successive postmenopausal women: 34 with metrorrhagia (group I) and 15 with no ...
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In Zimbabwe, where cervical cancer is the leading female malignancy, no systematic cervical screening program has been introduced. However, selective or opportunistic screening has been performed since the late 1980s at family planning clinics, various central and district government hospitals, and in private practice. The initial results of a cervical cancer screening program introduced in a ...
... had a Pap smear recently, and my doctor said the results showed cervical dysplasia. What does that ...
A review of the literature noted 11-16% discrepancy rates in cytology and histology diagnoses. We collected 358 cases with abnormal cytology and matching cervical biopsies. There were 123 (30%) discrepant pairs, of which 34 (27%) had negative biopsies following Papanicolaou (Pap) smears with squamous intraepithelial lesions (SIL). ...
In this exploratory study the authors investigated characteristics, including reported experiences of violence, related to incarcerated women's self-report of cervical cancer screening and cancer history and treatment. During a four month period in 2010, 204 women in Kansas City jails were surveyed. Multiple logistic regression models were used to examine the relations of socio-demographic and ...
BackgroundResults of cervical cytology screening showing atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASCUS) or low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (LSIL) indicate risk for high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN 2 or 3). In a community-based randomized trial we compared the test performance of human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA testing with that of 6-month repeat ...
Background? New testing technologies and human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines have recently brought changes to cervical cancer screening. In 2006, the Australian government also changed the protocol for managing abnormal Pap smears. Australian women's attitudes and preferences to these changes are largely unknown. Quantitative data on ...
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The term pap-smear refers to samples of human cells stained by the so-called Papanicolaou method. The purpose of the Papanicolaou method is to diagnose pre-cancerous cell changes before they progress to invasive carcinoma. In this paper a metaheuristic algorithm is proposed in order to classify the cells. Two databases are used, constructed in different times by expert MDs, ...
ObjectiveSmall cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix (SMCC) is extremely rare, and an aggressive disease that proliferates rapidly. It was often reported that the diagnostic accuracy of cytologic smears in diagnosing SMCC was low. This is a report of the Severance Hospital experience with the patients suffering from SMCC.MethodsTwenty-seven patients with small cell carcinoma of ...
BackgroundExtensive information on cervical cancer is currently available. Its effectiveness in reducing anxiety in women receiving abnormal Pap tests is not clear. We investigated current practices of communicating abnormal Pap results to evaluate women's reactions and determine the sources of information they use ...
Introduction? As the effectiveness of cytology-based screening programme for cervical cancer in mortality reduction has reached a plateau, various preventive strategies have been considered, including intensive Pap smear screening and the supplemental use of human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA test or HPV vaccination. Cost and effectiveness of these various ...
Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) is readily identifiable by cytology, so theoretically, most cases of invasive carcinoma should be preventable. Risk factors for carcinoma of the cervix are related to sexual activity, therefore screening should be similarly related. All women should have routine annual cytology as soon as they are sexually active. The high risk male partner should also be ...
... to reduce Pap smear waiting time to approximately nine days and to ... assessment of excessive waiting times for similar patient care services which ...
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smears are important to monitor in HIV infection, due to the increased risk of cervical cancer in women with a compromised immune system. Anal Pap smears to detect potential...
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The purpose of this study is to report the organization of a cost-effective screening program for cervical cancer in a developing country such as Brazil. The Cervical Cancer Screening Program of Paran� (CCSPP) was launched in October 1997 and was the result of a joint collaboration between the government of Paran� (Secretary of Health of the State of Paran�), scientific societies ...
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J. Slama, P. Freitag, P. Dundr, J. Duskova, D. Fischerova, M. Zikan, I. Pinkavova and D. Cibula Outcomes of pregnant patients with Pap smears classified as atypical glandular cells Objectives:? The incidence of cervical cancers increases with age. Due to the trend of increasing age of first pregnancy, abnormal Pap ...
Invasive cervical cancer is a preventable disease due to screening for precursor lesions using the Papanicolaou cytological testing (Pap smear). Participants were assessed regarding their access to and utilization of health care services, prevention orientation, history of chronic disease screening, and reproductive health history. Factors independently ...
Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination is expected to reduce the burden of cervical cancer in most settings; however, it is also expected to interfere with the effectiveness of screening. In the future, maintaining Pap cytology as the primary cervical screening test may become too costly. As the prevalence of cervical dysplasias decreases, the positive predictive value of the ...
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Highly successful systems were developed to karyotype chromosomes, measure muscle fiber size from biopsy specimens and automate PAP smear analysis for ...
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In 2010, about 1300 Canadian women will be diagnosed with cervical cancer and approximately 370 women will die from the disease. 1 Cervical cancer incidence and mortality has declined due to screening for cervical cancer using the Papanicalaou (Pap) test. Pap testing results in earlier detection and treatment of cervical cancer. 1 The ...
We observed that the ratio of in situ to invasive carcinomas of the cervix is significantly greater for squamous than for glandular lesions. We wondered whether Pap smears were less effective for the identification of in situ glandular lesions. The purpose of this study was to determine if the location, extent of disease, and growth patterns of ...
BACKGROUND: Anal smears are increasingly being used as a screening test for anal squamous intraepithelial lesions (ASILs). This study was undertaken to assess the usefulness and limitations of anal smears in screening for ASILs. METHODS: The cytomorphological features of 200 consecutive anal smears collected in liquid medium from 198 ...
BackgroundAnal smears are increasingly being used as a screening test for anal squamous intraepithelial lesions (ASILs). This study was undertaken to assess the usefulness and limitations of anal smears in screening for ASILs.MethodsThe cytomorphological features of 200 consecutive anal smears collected in liquid medium from 198 ...
BackgroundCervical cancer is one of the most common AIDS-related malignancies in Thailand. To prevent cervical cancer, The US Public Health Service and The Infectious Disease Society of America have recommended that all HIV-infected women should obtain 2 Pap smears 6 months apart after the initial HIV diagnosis and, if results of both are normal, should ...
HPV Testing Shows Which Pap Abnormalities Need Attention Testing for the human papillomavirus (HPV) may help doctors and patients decide what to do about the mildly abnormal and very common Pap test result known as ASCUS. Findings from a major, randomized, multicenter study by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) ...
Interphase fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) technology is a potential and promising molecular imaging tool, which can be applied to screen and detect cervical cancer. However, manual FISH detection method is a subjective, tedious, and time-consuming process that results in a large inter-reader variability and possible detection error (in particular for heterogeneous cases). Automatic FISH ...
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We performed a multicenter cross-sectional study of 134 sexually active systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients to investigate the prevalence of and risk factors for high risk human papilloma virus (HPV) infection and cervical cytological abnormalities among Korean women with SLE. In this multicenter cross-sectional study, HPV testing and routine cervical cytologic ...
OBJECTIVESPapanicolaou (Pap) smears are an underutilized screening modality among racial and ethnic minorities. However, no data exist on Pap smear utilization among South Asians, a rapidly growing population in the United States, whose country of origin includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. We ...
and liquid- based Pap smears, and for HPV testing. - Know infectious diseases that can be detected by Pap intraepithelial lesions. - Know indications for HPV testing and understand the different methods available for HPV
Community Health Centers (CHCs) are the nation's primary care safety net for vulnerable populations, including racial/ethnic minorities, immigrants, migrant workers, and those who are uninsured. Women from such population sub-groups contribute disproportionately to cervical cancer incidence, morbidity, and mortality due, in large part, to the underutilization of Papanicolau ...
Abstract: The mortality related to cervical cancer can be substantially reduced through ... However, current detection techniques, such as Pap smear and colposcopy, ... and tested to include topics of added relevance to the industry. ...
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In Thailand, there have been no 'organized' programmes of screening for cervical cancer. For the most part, screening has been unsystematic or provided to women 'on demand'. In 2002, the Department of Medical Services of the Ministry of Public Health proposed the screening of the entire population of women in Thailand at 5-yearly intervals from the ages of 35 to 60 years. As a first step, measures ...
From July to December 1994, the average waiting time or a Papanicolaou (Pap) smear at General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital was greater than 50 days. Satisfaction surveys and patient complaints revealed that beneficiaries found this waiting time to...
The aims of this study were to determine HPV in a male population and its correlation with penile gross inspection and urethral pap smears. Fifty male volunteers were included in the study; all of them were sexual partners of women with evidence of HPV-related cervical diseases. Urethral Pap smear features and ...
This study aims to establish evidence-based data to explore the perceptions and experience of primary care physicians in the Pap smear screening provision for women with intellectual disabilities (ID), and to analyze the associated factors in the delivery of screening services to women with ID in Taiwan. Data obtained by a cross-sectional survey by a ...
Introduction: The Pap smear test has been regarded as a promising cervical screening tool since 1940s. Yet its importance has been overlooked by beneficiaries in Malaysia. This underlines the need to identify the prevalence of Pap smear practice and influencing factors towards the practice among educated working ...
Papillary epithelial fragments (PEFs) are a rarely described architectural feature in cervicovaginal (Pap) smears. Morphologically, PEFs often consist of small, finely branching glandular tissue fragments with varying cytomorphology. This study identified 21 Pap smears (1978-2009) containing PEFs to determine the ...
We collected self reported rate of cervical smear testing to examine the affecting factors in women with physical disabilities in the study, to define the reproductive health care for this group of people. The study population recruited 521 women with physical disabilities aged more than 15 years who were officially registered as having physical disabilities in Taipei County, ...
Although little is known about the incidence of cervical cancer in women with intellectual disabilities (ID), Pap smear screening is an effective public health program to prevent cervical cancer to this group of people. The purposes of this study were to identify and evaluate the factors regarding the utilization of the Pap ...
Prompted by feedback from the 34th European Congress of Cytology (ECC), the practice of including a special symposium in the programme was continued in the 35th ECC in Lisbon (2009) by arranging a satellite symposium entitled 'Cervical Cancer Screening in the Mediterranean Countries'. Because of the importance to the future of this discipline, it was felt appropriate to summarize the highlights of ...
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether a nurse practitioner could collect adequate Papanicolaou smear samples from the transformation zone of the cervix. DESIGN: A retrospective, descriptive study. SETTING: The Bella Coola Medical Clinic, a primary care facility located in the isolated, small village of Bella Coola, BC. PARTICIPANTS: All women who presented for ...
The Pap smear test prevalence question was asked in BRFSS in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, and the even years after 2000 as part of the core questionnaire for all states, and in NHIS in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005 and 2008. The question was worded in similar ways on the two surveys.
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The main objective of this study was to assess the feasibility of human papillomavirus (HPV) genotyping in women referred for colposcopy due to abnormal Papanicolaou (Pap) smear. A series of 248 women referred for colposcopy due to an abnormal Pap smear were analysed with ...
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In vitro fluorescence measurements on pap smears of ascites, pleura, or Douglas confirmed results obtained previously with different types of tissue: Cancer tissue fluoresces hardly and is surrounded by a 'fluorescence belt.' Investigations of cytological smears (e.g. Pap smears) have revealed ...
The use of Pap smears for screening of carcionma of cervix uteri was evaluated in a family medicine unit. The charts of all women aged 18-34 were first reviewed then, over a month, a questionnaire was administered to all women consulting at the unit. For about 40% of the eligible women, no evidence was found that at least one Pap ...
Background:Primary cervicovaginal melanoma is a rare malignancy associated with a high risk of recurrence. Prior studies discussing the cytomorphology of cervicovaginal melanoma have been based primarily on review of conventional Papanicolaou (Pap) smears. The aim of this study was to evaluate cervicovaginal melanomas identified in liquid-based ...
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Automated cytology relies on the use of features extracted form cell images to classify cells. This paper examines the classification capability of a number of shape features on a database of normal, abnormal and endocervical cell nuclei images. The features include the chain code, the directed Hausdorff distance, measured of the length of the radii of the cell and measures of ...
Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) technology has been widely recognized as a promising molecular and biomedical optical imaging tool to screen and diagnose cervical cancer. However, manual FISH analysis is time-consuming and may introduce large inter-reader variability. In this study, a computerized scheme is developed and tested. It automatically detects and analyzes FISH spots depicted ...
OBJECTIVE: To determine Pap smear screening rates among urban First Nations women in British Columbia; to identify facilitators and barriers; and to develop, implement, and evaluate specific interventions to improve Pap smear screening in Vancouver. DESIGN: Computer records of band membership lists and the Cervical ...
Despite cervical cancer being one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths among women in Peru, cervical Pap smear coverage is low. This article uses findings from 185 direct clinician observations in four cities of Peru (representing the capital and each of the three main geographic regions of the country) to assess missed opportunities for health ...
In this paper, we present a fully automated method for cell nuclei detection in Pap smear images. The locations of the candidate nuclei centroids in the image are detected with morphological analysis and they are refined in a second step, which incorporates a priori knowledge about the circumference of each nucleus. The elimination of the undesirable ...
Receipt of an abnormal cervical smear result often generates fear and confusion and can have a negative impact on a woman's well-being. Most previous studies have focussed on high-grade abnormal smears. This study describes the psychological and psychosocial effects, on women, of having received a low-grade ...
As part of an ongoing project involving a large cohort in the Khon Kaen Province in the North-east of Thailand, a total of 236 women who had tested positive for a Pap smear at the initial recruitment and advised to seek medical attention were followed up after a mean period of 3.1 years. The 204 individuals who could be contacted were interviewed to ...
The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of cytological abnormalities of the anal mucosa in women with positive cervical cytology, but without macroscopic anal lesion. Ultimately we postulated if the anal mucosa may be a reservoir of HPV, which would allow the reinfection of cervix. Forty-nine patients with abnormal cervical cytology were ...
AbstractBackgroundDespite an increased risk for cervical cytologic abnormalities, HIV-infected women frequently miss their gynecology appointments. We examined barriers to adherence with gynecologic care in an urban HIV clinic.MethodsWe conducted a cross-sectional survey of 200 women receiving gynecologic services in an urban HIV clinic, followed by focus groups. Primary ...
PROBLEM BEING ADDRESSED: With the increasing emphasis on quality improvement, we need programs for improving office practice. OBJECTIVE OF PROGRAM: To demonstrate a simple and inexpensive program that resulted in improvement in the quality of Papanicolaou smears in a family practice teaching clinic. The performance measure was the proportion of smears ...
To investigate attitudes and beliefs that affect a woman's decision to undergo cervical smear screening, we carried out a survey of 760 women attending general obstetrics and gynaecology clinics in Irbid, Jordan between June 2004 and April 2005. Knowledge of cervical cancer and the Pap smear test was inadequate in less-educated and ...
A previously unrecognized autosomal dominant syndrome affecting oral, nasal, vaginal, urethral, anal, bladder, and conjunctival mucosa with cataracts, follicular keratosis, nonscarring alopecia, and terminal lung disease is described in a four-generation kindred of German extraction. Severe photophobia, tearing, and nystagmus in infancy heralds the development of keratitis, corneal ...
The vast majority of invasive cervical carcinomas harbor additional copies of the chromosome arm 3q, resulting in genomic amplification of the human telomerase gene TERC. Here, we evaluated TERC amplification in routinely collected liquid based cytology (LBC) samples with histologically confirmed diagnoses. A set of 78 LBC samples from a Swedish patient cohort were analyzed with a four-color ...
This experience took place in a Medical Center, in Rio de Janeiro, in 1988. The group responsible for it included a social worker, a nutritionist, a nurse and a gynecologist. The aims were: to offer better health care; to discuss the importance, the results and the appropriate therapies of the Pap smear; to offer women an opportunity to meet and discuss ...
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Our research is focused on the study of four types of interventions: family planning, birth control, birth services, and the pap smear. Despite obvious differences in analysis due to the very characteristics of these interventions, it has been possible fo...
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Model-based state level estimates improve BRFSS direct estimates by using NHIS to adjust for potential bias due to nonresponse and non-coverage of households without landline telephones.
Few studies have investigated what Vietnamese American women believe about the Pap smear or how those beliefs might influence behavior. Thirty-one Vietnamese American women recruited through snowball sampling were interviewed about their beliefs regarding the Pap smear. Interviews were qualitatively analyzed using ...
Rates of Pap smears among 72 adult women were shown to be suboptimal and predicted indirectly by attitudes and subjective norms. Women perceived these examinations to be unpleasant and embarrassing. PMID:8873790
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The diagnosis of breast or cervical cancer will be given to over two million women in the United States during the 1990s. Recommendations for clinical breast examination and Papanicolaou (Pap) smear as a preventive health examination are advocated by the ...
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The report explores the cognitive process used by women 50 years of age and over to answer questions about their experiences during the past 5 years with three cancer screening procedures; Pap smears, mammograms, and clinical breast examinations. Focus gr...
Few studies have examined Latinos' beliefs about the Pap smear or what uses they attribute to the procedure. We conducted qualitative interviews with 28 Mexican immigrant women and 23 Mexican immigrant men recruited through snowball sampling. We found that individuals learned about the Pap smear from a wide variety ...
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Abstract: The presentation will focus on topics of interest to young women pursuing ... Abstract: The mortality related to cervical cancer can be substantially ... However, current detection techniques, such as Pap smear and colposcopy, ...
This patient education program explains the Pap smear and the benefits of this test for detecting and treating cervical cancer in the early stages. This is a MedlinePlus Interactive Health Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine, designed and developed by the Patient Education Institute. NOTE: The tutorial requires a special Flash plug-in, version 4 ...
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In this paper, we present an inversion method to enhance a binary decision tree classifier using boundary search of training samples. We want to enhance the training at those points which are close to the boundaries. Selection of these points is based on the Euclidean distance from those centroids close to classification boundaries. The enhanced training using these selected data was compared with ...
BackgroundThe Malaysian Ministry of Health promotes breast self-examination (BSE) for all women, and Pap smear screening every three years for all sexually active women ages 20 years and above. The objectives of this paper were to examine the practice of these two screening tests among women production workers in electronics factories, and to identify ...
The Conference was organized to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the cervical smear test, commonly referred to as the 'Pap test' after its creator, George Nicholas Papanicolaou. The reports present the development of the test, its worldwide application, ...
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Cervical cancer screening using the Pap test is widely accepted and integrated into the U.S. health care system. Newer HPV-based technologies such as the HPV test and vaccine give women and health care providers options for complementing the Pap test to prevent and control cervical cancer more effectively. Current guidelines recommend using the HPV test in ...
BackgroundHuman Papillomavirus (HPV) is a well-known pathogen for lower genital tract neoplasias, yet little is known regarding HPV prevalence in Turkey. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of HPV DNA and to determine HPV types distribution among women with normal and abnormal cytology.MethodsA total of five hundred seven (n = 507) women were ...
This study assesses one possible cause of inter-patient variation in fluorescence spectroscopy of the cervix: the menstrual cycle. Ten patients with no history of an abnormal Pap smear were seen daily throughout 30 consecutive days of their cycle. Fluorescence excitation-emission matrices were measured from three cervical sites on each ...
Cervical cytology has proved to be one of the most successful examples of cancer screening and has resulted in significant decreases in incidence and mortality from invasive cervical cancer in regions in which comprehensive programs have been instituted. A standardized system of reporting abnormal cervical cytology, the Bethesda System has been developed and revised to reflect ...
In this study quantitative techniques have been applied to smears collected from the buccal mucosa and floor of the mouth. The results display an encouraging success rate for identifying premalignant and malignant lesions. 'Intrapatient' normal smears provide a satisfactory control for comparison with pathological smears. Early results ...
Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is a rare disorder characterized by abnormal accumulation of a lipoproteinaceous material in the alveoli, which may lead to respiratory failure and has an associated high risk for infections. The mainstay treatment for PAP is whole lung lavage. A pregnant woman, previously diagnosed with primary ...
OBJECTIVE: To compare two sampling techniques in their ability to obtain endocervical and metaplastic cells from the Papanicolaou smear. DESIGN: Prospective clinical trial comparing the criterion standard of a wooden spatula to a cytology brush. SETTING: Community-based family medicine clinic in London, Ont. PATIENTS: Consecutive sample of 102 women aged 15 to 58 years ...
ObjectiveRecent US data indicate that women of Vietnamese descent have higher cervical cancer incidence rates than women of any other race/ethnicity, and lower levels of Pap testing than white, black, and Latina women. Our objective was to provide information about Pap testing barriers and facilitators that could be used to develop cervical cancer control ...
Papanicolaou (Pap) smears are part of the follow-up program for patients with cervical cancer treated with radiochemotherapy. After therapy, residual neoplastic cells may be rare, seldom exfoliate, and may demonstrate many alterations, which creates a risk of inaccurate results. We report a study of 65 patients who received radiochemotherapy before radical ...
Please cite this paper as: Frederiksen M, Lynge E, Rebolj M. What women want. Women's preferences for the management of low-grade abnormal cervical screening tests: a systematic review. BJOG 2011; DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2011.03130.x. Background? If human papillomavirus (HPV) testing will replace cytology in primary cervical screening, the frequency of low-grade ...
BackgroundWe estimated the number of women undergoing cervical cancer screening annually in Italy, the rates of cervical abnormalities detected, and the costs of screening and management of abnormalities.MethodsThe annual number of screened women was estimated from National Health Interview data. Data from the Italian Group for Cervical Cancer Screening ...
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This study assesses the follow-up provided to patients of a family medicine clinic in Quebec who had abnormal cervical smears that were possibly precancerous or cancerous. Less follow-up was provided in the case of benign atypical smears, probably because the role of benign atypia in the pathogenesis of cervical cancer is as yet ...
Abstract Objective: This study examined a possible association of dietary exposure to polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs), a brominated flame retardant, and self-reported abnormal Pap test results and cervical dysplasia as a precursor to cervical cancer. Methods: Women in Michigan who ingested contaminated poultry, beef, and dairy products in the early 1970s ...
This study assessed screening completion rates (SCR) and sociodemographic factors associated with Pap test screening among previously nonadherent, foreign-born Asian Pacific Islander (API) women across four sites participating in a community-based cancer screening program called ENCOREplus. At intake, 926 out of 1,140 women were nonadherent to recommended ...
Aim:? To investigate the pre-vaccination epidemiology of genital human papillomavirus (HPV) infections and genotypes in women with abnormal cytology in Nagasaki, Japan. Material and Methods:? We performed Pap smear tests, biopsies and HPV genotype testing in Nagasaki Prefecture from August 2007 through November 2009. Results:? During ...
... and 25% of young men from the pool of potential military applicants ... abnormal Papanicolaou smear of the cervix� (n=34,577); �anemia� (n=28,824 ...
This work sought to record the impressions of nursing assistants and technicians after submitting to Pap smear screening. This is a descriptive study using a qualitative approach conducted in September and October of 2006 with 35 employees of a public institution, which is a benchmark in gynecology in Fortaleza in the State of Cear� (Brazil). The data ...
Chinese American immigrants are a growing part of the United States population. Cervical cancer is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality among Chinese Americans. Pap smear testing is less common in Chinese American immigrants than in the general population. During 1999, we conducted a community-based survey of Chinese American women living in ...
Cervical cancer is a major health concern for Latinas, who are also less likely to undergo a Pap smear exam than the general population. This study identifies alterable determinants of Pap smear screening for Latino women living in a rural area of California. It involved the design and pilot testing of a culturally ...
Objective. When pathologic discrepancy arises between high-grade cytology on Papanicolaou (Pap) smear and low-grade histology on cervical biopsy, Loop Electrosurgical Excisional Procedure (LEEP) is one management alternative. Our objective was to determine whether the time from initial HGSIL Pap to LEEP affects the pathologic grade of ...
The Pap test is the foundation of cervical cancer screening in North America and most industrialized countries. It has been widely used in the United States since the 1950s. But are our current screening guidelines still justified? In this article, the author reviews the current recommendations for cervical cancer screening by the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the American ...
Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) comprises a heterogenous group of diseases characterized by abnormal surfactant accumulation resulting in respiratory insufficiency, and defects in alveolar macrophage- and neutrophil-mediated host defense. Basic, clinical and translational research over the past two decades have raised PAP from ...
Eight cases are reported about women with the diagnosis of HPV related lesions; a "dot-blot" hybridization technique with radioactive probes was done with each of them, also a conization with a diathermic loop (LLETZ) and a post operative follow-up with methods such as Pap smear, colposcopy and hybridization. We think the way we manage HPV related lesions ...
HPLC combined with laser induced fluorescence provides a very sensitive method for the separation and identification of the many proteins present in clinical samples. Protein profiles of clinical samples like Pap smear and tissue samples, from subjects with cervical cancer and normal volunteers, were recorded using HPLC-LIF. The protein profiles were ...
For cervical cancer detection, the performance of multispectral texture (MST) features extracted from multispectral Pap smear images is evaluated. In this study we carried out pairwise comparisons between different image features, including MST versus average spectral texture features (AST, without spectral information), and MST versus multispectral ...
The purpose of this study was to gather information on the prevalence of pap smear testing among Vietnamese women and to identify predictive factors that influence women to engage in early cervical cancer detection behavior. One hundred and forty-one (141) Vietnamese women ages 18 years and older and living in Western Massachusetts were surveyed by ...
A preliminary analysis was undertaken to ascertain whether a Leitz TAS (Texture Analyse System) video camera system, which is computer controlled, could be used to detect abnormal cells in cervical smears. Immunocytochemical together with haemalum nuclear staining was used for the epithelial membrane antigen. It was possible to detect ...
IntroductionChinese American women have high rates of invasive cervical cancer, compared to the general population. However, little is known about the Pap testing behavior of ethnic Chinese immigrants.MethodsWe conducted a community-based survey of Chinese immigrants living in Seattle, Washington, during 1999. Two indicators of cervical cancer screening participation were ...
BackgroundPap tests are used to detect abnormal cell growth in the cervix. Early detection of precancerous cells increases the likelihood of treatment success. In fact, the Pap test is one of only a few cancer screening procedures that can prevent cancer by virtue of identifying and intervening upon abnormal ...
BACKGROUND AND METHODS: To evaluate the reasons for the occurrence of invasive cervical cancer in Carinthia despite cytological screening, all 132 patients diagnosed with cervical cancer in the years 2000-2002 were recorded and all gynecological cytological smears made within the 5 years prior to the diagnosis of cancer were reevaluated. RESULTS: Within the 5 years prior to ...
The role of tobacco smoking in the multistage carcinogenesis at the cervix is not fully understood because of a paucity of prospective data. To assess the relationship between smoking and spontaneous regression of cervical precursor lesions, a total of 516 women with low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (LSIL) were monitored by cytology and colposcopy every 4 months. Probability of LSIL ...
Background: No accurate estimates of cervical cancer incidence or mortality currently exist in Georgia. Nor are there any data on the population-based prevalence of high-risk (HR) human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, which, in the absence of good-quality screening, is known to correlate with cervical cancer incidence. Methods: We obtained cervical cell specimens from 1309 women aged 18-59 years ...
BackgroundCervical cancer is one of the top causes of cancer morbidity and mortality in Colombia despite the existence of a national preventive program. Screening coverage with cervical cytology does not explain the lack of success of the program in reducing incidence and mortality rates by cervical cancer. To address this problem an ecological analysis, at department level, was carried out in ...
BackgroundIntegration of human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA has been considered a late event in cervical carcinogenesis. However, integrated forms of HPV were recently detected in cancer precursor lesions using a new real time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to detect the deletions at the 3362�3443 region of HPV16 E2ObjectiveTo study the frequency of HPV16 DNA integration in cervical lesions and ...
Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia (CIN) is a precursor to invasive cervical cancer, which annually accounts for about 3700 deaths in the United States and about 274,000 worldwide. Early detection of CIN is important to reduce the fatalities due to cervical cancer. While the Pap smear is the most common screening procedure for CIN, it has been proven to ...
Cervical cancer is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among women but can be prevented through simple cost-effective measures, such as creating awareness, and regular screening with the Pap smear, both in the premenopausal and postmenopausal age group. This study was carried out to study the cervical smear patterns ...
A prospective study of cervical cytology was carried out on 350 consecutive female patients attending the central venereal diseases clinic (CVDC) in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The main objective was to assess the proportion of abnormal cervical smears to emphasise the need to introduce routine cervical cytology screening in the sexually transmitted diseases (STD) ...
Explains what test results mean if a recent Pap test showed cell changes in the cervix; discusses that not all cervical changes mean cancer; explains the importance of getting follow-up care for abnormal results.
Despite a three-fold reduction in cervical cancer mortality 50 years after the introduction of the Pap smear, Dr. Kerner presented cancer mortality maps for whites (including Hispanics and non-Hispanics) and blacks that indicated that in many states, stable clusters of county populations have continued to experience a relatively high rate of cervix cancer ...
Dr. Hall presented information on data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding cervical cancer screening and summarized the Pap smear screening rates in high mortality counties. Among white women, lower screening rates were observed in high mortality counties, and lower screening rates ...
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A study of cancer screening by internal medicine residents in an inner-city clinic revealed that screening was more frequent for male patients, and breast examinations and Pap smears were performed on less than a third of female patients, suggesting a need for more intensive early-detection education of residents. (MSE)
guidelines recognize the value of human papilloma virus testing, and possibly less frequent screening of cervical cancer is human papillomaviruses (HPVs), a group of more than 100 known types of viruses (National papilloma virus test--to work up atypical pap smears are very cost-effective as long as we test every five
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BackgroundSome genotypes of human papillomaviruses can infect the genital tract and they are important infectious agents which their oncogenicity is regardable. Thus the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of various genital human papillomaviruses (HPV) among women being subjected to routine pap smear test in Bushehr city of Iran.ResultsBased ...
This is a case study presented by the University of Pittsburgh Department of Pathology in which an elderly woman experienced bloody vaginal discharge long after menopause. Visitors are given both the microscopic pap smear and biopsy findings, including images, and are given the opportunity to diagnose the patient. This is an excellent resource for students ...
Most Americans Do Not Know When or How Often To Get Cancer Screening Tests While most Americans know that mammograms, pap smears, and colonoscopies are screening exams for cancer, the majority of Americans do not know the appropriate age at which initiation of these tests is recommended, according to the latest brief from the Health Information National ...
OBJECTIVESWe evaluated the relationship between U.S. citizenship status and the receipt of Pap smears and mammograms among immigrant women in California.DESIGNCross-sectional study using data from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey.PATIENTS/PARTICIPANTSNoninstitutionalized, civilian women, aged 18 years and older living in California.MEASUREMENTS ...
Exposures to isopropyl alcohol (67630) and xylene (1330207) used in a staining solution for treatment of pap smear and sputum specimen slides were evaluated on May 9, 1979 at the request of an employer representative of Pathologist Laboratory Consultation...
The automatic analysis of Pap smear microscopic images is one of the most interesting fields in biomedical image processing. In this paper we present the capability of the Median M-Type Radial Basis Function (MMRBF) neural network in the classification of cervical cancer cells. From simulation results we observe that the MMRBF neural network has better ...
Investigated college students' knowledge of the relationship between human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer. Few students knew what HPV was. Most of the females who had been screened knew that a Pap smear could detect HPV and cervical cancer. Over half of the students did not realize the link between HPV and cervical cancer. Students learned about ...
Among women worldwide, cancer of the uterine cervix (cervical cancer) is the most common cancer after breast cancer. It is often successfully treated when detected early, which is effectively accomplished by regular Pap smears. In the United States, 10,370 women are expected to be diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2005.
Cervical cancer is one of the most preventable forms of cancer and the Pap smear test is one of the most widely accessible forms of cancer screening. An important public health issue is the extent to which Canadian women are engaging in regular screening for cervical cancer, particularly potentially at-risk groups such as recent immigrants and women from ...
breast cancer, lung cancer and colon cancer. About 7,350 women in the US will die from cancers1 Cervical Cancer I. Cervical dysplasia II. Cervical cancer III. Causes IV. Risk factors V. Detection: Pap Smear & Colposcopy VI. Treatment Cervical Cancer Overview Cervical cancer develops
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The goals of this study were to evaluate breast and cervical cancer screening tests and to examine the correlates of cancer screening behaviors. A cross-sectional face-to-face survey of 438 Korean-American women residing in Maryland was conducted. About 50% of women age 18 and older had had a Pap smear and 46.6% of these women age 40 and older had had a ...
Abstract Background: African American women have increased mortality rates for cervical, breast, and colorectal cancers, yet not all receive the recommended screening tests for these cancers. We characterized the cancer screening behaviors of African American women enrolled in a community-based cancer prevention trial. Methods: We examined cross-sectional data from 1123 African American customers ...
A study investigated whether the personality construct of repression-sensitization could identify which college students would or would not practice regular examinations for breast, cervical, or testicular cancer. Although knowledge of cancer increased after the lecture, no change was found in the frequency of breast self-examination while frequency of pap ...
The aim of the study is to evaluate the frequency of chorea in a cohort of primary antiphospholipid syndrome (PAPS) patients and their possible clinical and laboratory associations. The records of 88 PAPS patients, fulfilling Sapporo criteria, followed up at the rheumatology outpatient clinic, were analyzed in order to determine the frequency of chorea. ...
The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence and correlates of breast and cervical cancer screening tests among Korean American elderly women. This study examined the effects of individual socio-demographic background, acculturation level (e.g., proportion of life spent in the US, spoken English proficiency), health status and access to health care on uptake of mammography and ...
We established a culturally appropriate, community-based women's health service in Yuendumu, Northern Territory, to improve women's health and to remedy the low rate of cervical screening. During the 16 months of the program 419 cervical smears were taken, increasing coverage of the women eligible from 51 to 78 per cent. Acceptance of the program was excellent, with only 2 per ...
Background: The Thai healthcare setting has seen patients with cervical cancer experience an increasing burden of morbidity and mortality, a stagnation in the performance of cervical screening programmes and the introduction of a vaccine for the prevention of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. Objective: This study aims to identify the optimum mix of interventions that are cost effective, from ...
The current paper presents an annex in the second edition of the European Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Cervical Cancer Screening. It provides guidance on how to make a satisfactory conventional Pap smear or a liquid-based cytology (LBC) sample. Practitioners taking samples for cytology should first explain to the woman the purpose, the procedure and ...
Conventional Papanicolaou smear method is still commonly used for cervical cancer screening in Japan, despite the liquid-based cytology (LBC) that has become a global tendency in the world recently. One of the obstacles in the way of popularization of this method seems to be the confusion as to diagnosis upon cervical glandular lesions. We performed comparison study between ...
Most cervical cancers begin where the endocervix and ectocervix meet. Pap tests (also called Pap smears) are vital in the early detection of cervical cancer. Ecto-endocervical Pap-tests from 230 patients with verified bacterial vaginosis (BV) were studied. Endometrial biopsy was also used in the evaluation of 95 ...
Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is a change in vaginal ecosystem where lactobacilli dominate, flora is absent or greatly reduced, and replaced with a mixed, predominantly anaerobic flora, consisting of Gardnerella vaginalis, Mycoplasma hominis, Mobiluncus spp, Bacteroides spp, Prevotela spp, Peptostreptococcus spp, Fusobacterium spp and Porphyromonas spp. The concentration of bacteria increases from 100 ...
Presentations at the Fifth Annual Conference on HIV/AIDS Research in Winnipeg (Canada) considered the level of viral load and CD4+ counts that can be used to guide therapeutic decisions. Discussions centered on the dangers of relying too heavily on any one measurement of an individual's viral load, and other topics, such as what happens when trial dropouts all have low CD4+ counts, when to worry ...
Cervical cancer is one of the five leading causes of death among women aged 45-59 years in the developing world, and the most common type of cancer among South African women, accounting for about 25% of all cancer-related mortality. The Philani Cervical Cancer Prevention Project, located in Site C of Khayelitsha, a settlement outside of Cape Town, is now screening women to prevent development of ...
To analyse the epidemiological aspects contributing to the transmission of human papillomavirus (HPV) lesions (flat, inverted, and papillomatous condylomas) of the uterine cervix, we recorded the sexual behaviour of 146 women who consecutively attended the department of obstetrics and gynaecology of Kuopio University Central Hospital with a cervical HPV lesion (with or without concomitant cervical ...
BACKGROUND: Small for gestational date (SGA) babies have a poor 'whole of life' prognosis and major factors affecting SGA may be present prior to conception. AIMS: To discover whether lifestyle risk factors can be identified in women planning a pregnancy. STUDY DESIGN: Prospective study of women who were planning a pregnancy, who agreed to answer a detailed 250 question questionnaire prior to ...
Histologic and clinical characteristics associated with rapidly progressive invasive cervical cancer are presented in this preliminary report from a population-based study involving all patients in Connecticut diagnosed with cervical cancer from March 1, 1985. Rapidly progressive invasive cervical cancer, i.e., invasive cancer diagnosed within three years of a true negative ...
We have investigated the potential application of elastic light single-scattering spectroscopy (ELSSS) as an adjunctive tool for screening of cervical precancerous lesions non-invasively and in real time. Ex-vivo measurements were performed on 95 cervix biopsy tissue of 60 patients. Normal cervix tissue from 10 patients after hysterectomy was used as a control group. Correlation between ELSSS ...
Cell-mediated immunity, particularly that induced by T cells, is thought to have a key role in controlling infection. The enzyme-linked immunospot (ELISPOT) assay has been successfully adapted to detect T-cell immune response to a variety of pathogens. However, it still remains a challenge to detect antigen-specific T cells when the numbers of circulating cells are low, such as in a local cervical ...
Argument continues over the best management of women with a first mildly dyskaryotic cervical smear: should they be referred for prompt colposcopy, or should they be kept under cytological review, with recourse to colposcopy if the abnormality persists? One consideration is the amount of anxiety generated. We measured anxiety, retrospectively, in two ...
The Pap smear is one of the modern success stories in the field of preventive medicine. Since its introduction as a screening test, there has been a dramatic reduction in the incidence of cervical cancer. However, the search for a better screening test continues. The new technologies, including liquid-based cytology (LBC), Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) ...
ContextHIV infection and cervical cancer are common in Nigeria. HIV-positive women have a higher risk for cervical neoplasm; therefore, counseling and regular cervical cancer screening are recommended. After post-HIV testing counseling, HIV-positive women should be aware of the Papanicolaou (Pap) smear.ObjectiveTo determine the coverage of cervical cancer ...
Prospective studies analyzing the ThinPrep Imaging System (TIS) have demonstrated a significant decrease in screening time and detection rates comparable or better than manual screening. We retrospectively analyzed the accuracy of the TIS in detecting cervical abnormalities. Our study included all new HSIL diagnoses in 2007 with previous negative (NIL) pap ...
HPV Testing Proves Sensitive in Identifying ASCUS Abnormalities That May Lead to Cervical Cancer Testing for the human papillomavirus (HPV) may help doctors and patients decide what to do about the mildly abnormal and very common Pap test result known as ASCUS (short for atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance). ...
BackgroundAlthough the importance of Papanicolaou (Pap) smear test screening in reducing the incidence of cervical cancer is well established, in 1994�95 one in 4 women in Manitoba aged 18 to 69 years reported never having had a Pap test or not having had a Pap test in the last 3 years. The objectives of this ...
Aim:The aim of this study was to determine the diagnostic accuracy of routine Papanicolaou stain (PAP) and Silver stained Nucleolar Organizer Regions (AgNOR) staining in brush biopsies taken from suspected oral lesions for early detection of oral cancer.Materials and Methods:Brush biopsies were collected from macroscopically suspicious lesions of the oral cavity of 34 patients ...
A technique is described whereby inclusion-bearing cells identified by light microscopy in stained smears of urinary sediment were reprocessed for examination in the electron microscope. The nuclei of the abnormal cells were found to contain numerous virus particles, 35 nm in diameter, which morphologically resembled papovaviruses. The technique was ...
During a 3-4 year period, 324 women with a positive smear were registered consecutively and prospectively and divided into two groups according to the design of the investigation. In one group the smear was taken with an Ayre spatula and in the other group with a cotton swab. The purpose of this investigation has been to make a comparison between the ...
Cervical cancer is preventable, and can be cured when detected early. It has long been regarded as a disease of sexually active women, and malignancy in the cervix is now associated with human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) added cervical cancer to its list of AIDS-defining conditions in 1993. Women on immune suppressive therapies experience ...
BackgroundWe sought to measure time and identify predictors of timely follow-up among a cohort of racially/ethnically diverse inner city women with breast and cervical cancer screening abnormalities.MethodsEligible women had an abnormality detected on a mammogram or Pap test between January 2004 and December 2005 in one of six ...
Cervico-vaginal smears from 350 IUCD users were analysed to ascertain the range of abnormalities induced in the genital tract of these women. Alteration of the microbial environment, inflammatory, degenerative, reparative and proplastic epithelial changes were the salient cytological findings. The clinical implications of these are briefly discussed. ...
Results of 3,009 Papanicolaou smears from black women are reviewed. The modus operandi and cost for the outpatient component are presented. Abnormal results were reported in 11.6 percent of the combined outpatients and inpatients. The major portion of the changes in this subset were due to atypia present in a substantial number of women with Trichomonas ...
BACKGROUND: Data on the impact of abnormal cervical smear results on health-related quality of life (HrQoL) are scarce. We aimed to (i) prospectively assess the HrQoL of women who were informed of an abnormal smear result; (ii) identify predictors of greater negative psychosocial impact of an ...
The PAPNET system is an automated interactive instrument for analysis of conventional (Papanicolaou) cervical smears. The instrument, described in this paper, introduces several important innovations to cytology automation. The cell selection system is composed of two stages: an algorithmic classifier, followed by a trained neural network allowing for great flexibility and ...
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Cervical and vaginal smears were obtained from 160 women who had delivered one to eight days prior to cytologic examination. Preparations were examined for general morphology and graded for malignancy. The degree of cytologic abnormality was found to corr...
test results. What Abnormal Results Mean The results may show the presence of giardia protozoa, the intestinal parasite strongyloides, or another infectious organism. Risks The...
