US health panel adds self-testing option for cervical cancer screening

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Women should have the option of taking their own test samples for cervical cancer screening, an influential health panel said Tuesday.

Draft recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force are aimed at getting more people screened and spreading the word that women can take their own vaginal samples to check for cancer-causing HPV.

Women in their 20s should still get a Pap test every three years. But after that — from age 30 to 65 — women can get an HPV test every five years, the panel said.

And those HPV tests can be done with samples collected either by a doctor or by the patient herself in a mobile clinic or medical office. Women ages 30 to 65 can still opt for a Pap test done by a doctor every three years, or a Pap plus an HPV test every five years.

https://apnews.com/article/cervical-cancer-pap-test-hpv-4fca6f6072531a976a27cf369878fb59

[Hellbound Hellhound]

1. "Fuck your insurance do it yourself!"

No wonder the Adjustor did what he did. Here's hoping thousands more do the same.

[Silent Type]

2. Truthfully, I bet that increases testing. Like plenty of people still rely on less accurate

colon cancer cards, and aren’t going to go for a colonoscopy as first line of testing.

[TommyT139]

3. Not just women

A version of this test went through studies for trans men, with great success. DM me for more info.