One in three women do not attend their first smear test due to concerns over the invasive procedure - Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank RF A handheld device could end invasive smear tests for 98 per cent ...

A new initiative is set to offer women in England the option of performing cervical screening tests at home, aimed at boosting uptake and combating cervical cancer. The move targets those who have ...

Women in England will now be screened for cervical cancer every five years, instead of every three, health chiefs announced today. The new protocol will be introduced from July, and applies to women ...

Smear tests are nobody's favourite, but they're a vital part of healthcare. Now, the way you're tested for HPV is changing. From July, invitations for cervical screening will be sent out every five ...

New plans have been announced to shake up the way cervical cancer risk is detected in England: at-home HPV testing kits are set to be offered to women who have missed their cervical smear test ...

Researchers have found that testing period blood for signs of cervical cancer could be an accurate way of screening for the disease. Read: no more having a speculum shoved into you by a stranger every ...

An at-home cervical-screening test could encourage about 400,000 more women to be screened for the disease every year if adopted by the NHS. Researchers at King's College London have conducted a 'game ...

Let’s be frank, none of us relish the idea of lying, knicker-less, with our feet in stirrups. Having a spatula wedged deep inside us having our cells “scraped” isn’t pleasurable. But the procedure ...

From the age of 25, people with a cervix are invited to go for a cervical smear test in the UK. It's a potentially life-changing examination, which can act as an early detection of cervical cancer.