smear test in a sentence

1. cervical smear test.

2. what is a smear test?

3. See separate article Cervical Screening (Cervical Smear Test).

4. Routine smear test in women under 25 would cause more harm than good

5. The life-long nine-negative Pap smear test reduces this risk by 99%.

6. Regular smear tests boost chances of cure from 66 percent to 92 percent

7. it can be prevented by regular screenings and pap smear tests post 35 yrs of age.

8. However, the examination is important, only takes a few minutes and is similar to having a smear test.

9. A further 4,500 were not sent the results of the smear tests they had attended between January and October.

10. A cervical smear test cannot be used as a screening test for trichomoniasis, due to the high number of false negatives.

11. New research shows that rats can detect up to 70 percent more cases of tuberculosis in children than standard smear tests.

12. It is best for a woman to have a smear test of the cervix from the age of 25 if she has already had sex (sexual intercourse).

13. I’ve been encouraging all my female friends to attend their smear tests and two of them have now had abnormal changes found.”

14. She was diagnosed with cancer three years after her smear test results of 2011 were incorrectly reported as clear of abnormalities.

15. The error meant 43,000 letters inviting female patients for a smear test or giving them a reminder were not sent between January and June.

16. Pap smear testing for cancer of the cervix has saved thousands of women's lives and is one of the great success stories in cancer screening.

17. "I always felt the separate sections during intercourse and smear tests, but I just thought that feeling was a normal thing every woman had," she said.

18. Doctors started offering this simple test, also known as the smear test (Pap test in the US) to women in the UK during routine appointments in the 1960s.

19. So even if you now have simply one partner and practice safer sex, you could still have an abnormal Pap smear test if you were exposed to HPV in the past.

20. These warnings do not apply, she has said, in poor countries where women do not have access to regular Pap smear tests and to high-quality cancer treatment.