Perform a Pap smear when the patient is in the proliferative phase (in the week following cessation of menses). The patient should avoid intercourse or intravaginal products/douches for 24-48 ...

Efforts to improve terminology for reporting results of cervical cytology and to develop more effective algorithms for cancer diagnosis and treatment of women with abnormal Pap smears were ...

The risk of CIN3+ was also lower 8 years after HPV testing as compared with 3 years after negative cytology ... "Also the Pap ...