Ontario will replace its main method of cervical cancer screening next week to a more accurate and less frequent test, but the dreaded speculum exam is not in the rear-view yet.

As part of the Ontario Cervical Screening Program, the province has announced it is going to use Human Papillomavirus (HPV) testing rather than Pap smear tests as a primary way to screen for cervical ...

Experts say it’s an opportunity to help address barriers for people such as racialized immigrants and refugees, Indigenous ...

A doctor holds a swab from an HPV self-testing kit. (CBC) A provincial flow chart sent to doctors shows patients who test positive will be asked to screen again in two years. After those two years ...

A cervix self-screening kit is a part of the first self-screening ... But starting next week, the lab will test for HPV, the primary cause of cervical cancer. “Previously they would look at ...

But self-screening kits that have been adopted in British ... But starting next week, the lab will test for HPV, the primary cause of cervical cancer. “Previously they would look at the cells ...

Gynecologist Dr. Kim Alexander explains the benefits of HPV testing and midlife vaccination against the virus.