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‘That’s an option?’: Patient gets a Pap smear during menstrual cycle. The OB-GYN asks if they want their flow ‘scooped out’

A TikTok claim has gone viral after a creator said that during a routine Pap smear, while they happened to be on their period, their OB-GYN offered to shorten or eliminate the rest of their cycle by “scooping it out.”

The Mary Sue

Outrage After 'Sansum Clinic' Staff Post Patients' Pap Smear Discharge Photos — Were They Fired?

Sansum Clinic staff placed on leave after a TikTok video showed them mocking patients' pap smear discharge in an exam room.

International Business Times UK

Helping pap smears be less painful

Unrecognized pain conditions have long made pap smears excruciating for some — that’s slowly changing

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New self-swab HPV test is an alternative to Pap smears. Here's how it works.

There's a new way to screen for high-risk HPV, a viral infection that can lead to cervical cancer. This alternative method of collecting samples for cervical cancer screening doesn't require a speculum.

LiveScience

If You Hate Getting Pap Smears, Here’s Some Extremely Good News

The first self-administered tests for collecting vaginal samples are on the way to health care facilities, making Pap smears more accessible and tolerable.

Inverse

I’m due for a cervical cancer screening. What can I expect? Can I do it myself? And what happened to Pap smears?

Cervical screening in Australia has changed over the past seven years. The test has changed, and women (and people with a cervix) now have much more choice and control. Here’s why – and what you can expect if you’re aged 25 to 74 and are due for a test.

The Conversation

HPV DNA Self-Sampling Test kit unveiled

Thailand’s concerned private and public sectors are accelerating their efforts to help women avoid cervical cancer, or at least avoid its worst consequences.

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Researchers say AI could help reduce disparities, improve access in health care

BALTIMORE — Cervical cancer, like many illnesses, is treatable if it’s caught early, but each year millions of women miss out on getting routine Pap smear screening for the disease, which kills a disproportionate number of Black women.

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Free pap smear detection test launched at GGH, Tenali

MLA says it is part of Cancer-Free Tenali initiative

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