Health Rounds: Swabs as good as unpleasant speculum exam for detecting cancer-causing HPV

  • Posted on February 21, 2025
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Health Rounds: Swabs as good as unpleasant speculum exam for detecting cancer-causing HPV

(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays.) By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - Women can safely skip the unpleasant speculum-based exam for human papillomavirus screening and instead test for the virus themselves using a vaginal swab, two new studies confirm. Genital HPV infections are thought to be responsible for more than
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