Women's Wellness: Still need a Pap smear after hysterectomy?
It depends. Pap test, also called a Pap smear, is a routine screening test for early diagnosis of cervical cancer. If you had a partial hysterectomy -- when the uterus is removed but the lower end of the uterus (cervix) remains -- your health care provider will likely recommend continued Pap tests. Similarly, if you [...] (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - April 3, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New checks that could soon replace those 'embarrassing' smear tests
Pamela Nelis, from Greenock, Renfrewshire, in Scotland, was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2012 after ignoring her screening appointments for two decades. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 2, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Woman, 22, slams the NHS after she was denied a smear test
Demi-Lee Stewart, from Glasgow, is still three years away from the Government's smear testing threshold of 25. She has been suffering bleeding between periods - a sign of cervical cancer. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 26, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Bring in DIY smear tests NOW, urges charity as NHS figures show that FIVE MILLION women are overdue
Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust has called for postal DIY smear tests to be made available as soon as possible. Authorities plan to make them available in the post to all women in the UK by December 2019. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 22, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Cervical cancer warning: Jade Goody 10 years on - five common symptoms you should know
CERVICAL cancer symptoms can be hard to spot, and and may not cause any signs during its early stages. It ’s been 10 years since reality TV star Jade Goody died from cervical cancer. These are the most common warning signs and symptoms you should know about, and how to get the smear test. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - March 22, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Cervical screening: DIY smear test could be 'game-changer'
Women who miss cervical screening appointments will be given home-testing kits in a pilot scheme. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 21, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Mother is calling for yearly NHS screening after she developed terminal cancer between tests
Ellie Taylor, 30, from Newbury in Berkshire, developed cervical cancer from nothing during the three-year period between her smear tests and is warning the NHS tests are too far apart. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 21, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Women who miss their cancer screening at the clinic will now be offered home kits
Women across the UK will be offered DIY smear tests in a bid to cut cervical cancer deaths. Kits will be sent to women in the post, enabling them to take their own sample at home and return it to the NHS. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 20, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Childcare offered for free to smear-test mums
Dozens of providers are offering an hour of free care so mothers can attend cervical screening appointments. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 20, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Mother dies of cervical cancer after missing just ONE smear test
Carly Gorst, of Speke, Liverpool, discovered she had a four-inch tumour in her cervix in December 2017 after she began bleeding heavily. She endured surgery, chemo and radiotherapy. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 18, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Women face delays in smear test results
Surge in number of smear tests come as laboratories prepare for shake-up Related items fromOnMedica Preventing cervical cancer: how a screening switch and HPV vaccination should cut cancer rates Social media could help raise breast screening take-up Armed forces wives at greater risk of perinatal depression Cervical screening intervals should be extended Breast cancer age profile younger in non-white women (Source: OnMedica Latest News)
Source: OnMedica Latest News - March 17, 2019 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Screening service in 'meltdown' as more women attend smears
Public health campaign triggers surge in numbers attending cervical screenings at ‘worst possible time’Women could be forced to wait months for cervical cancer screening results because the planned closure of dozens of laboratories has left the service in “meltdown”, the Guardian has been told.The crisis has been triggered by a surge in numbers of women attending smear tests following a governmentpublic awareness campaign launched earlier this month. The campaign coincides with an exodus of biomedical scientists due to a restructuring process that will reduce nearly 50 hospital screening laboratories to nine this s...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 17, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Hannah Devlin Science correspondent Tags: NHS Health Cervical cancer Health policy Public services policy Science Society Politics UK news Source Type: news
Nursing staff set up cervical cancer test clinic for hospital colleagues
A team of nursing staff in the North West have set up a smear test clinic for hospital employees in a bid to help encourage those who are busy caring for patients, to look after themselves too. (Source: Nursing Times)
Source: Nursing Times - March 15, 2019 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Mother, 44, who 'thought she had a chest infection' dies from lung cancer
Julie Newman, from Hull, beat cervical cancer after a shock diagnosis in 2007. She had spent years campaigning the importance of getting a smear test to other women. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 14, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Third of under-30s in Wales snub cervical smear tests
Despite being the most common cancer in younger women, the uptake for cervical screening is falling. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 12, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
