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What is an abnormal Pap test?
A Pap test, or Pap smear, is part of a woman’s routine physical exam. It is a great way to prevent cervical cancer, because it can find cells on your cervix that could turn into cancer. The cervix is the lower part of...
What is HPV?
HPV, or Human Papillomavirus, is the name of a group of viruses that has more than 100 different strains. HPV is sometimes called the wart virus because some types of HPV cause warts on the hands, feet or genitals. Some types can turn...
Breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a procedure being studied more frequently for its role in detecting breast cancer, including the diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) and contralateral breast cancer (breast cancer in the opposite...
Test Overview
A cancer antigen 125 (CA-125) is a protein found on the surface of many ovarian cancer cells. It also can be found in other cancers and in small amounts in normal tissue. A CA-125 test measures the amount of this protein in the blood....
First: Get Your Doctor's Attention
"When you go to the gynecologist now, they only examine 30 percent of the plumbing," says Drescher. "There's nothing north of the cervix that gets checked. It's as if you went to the dentist and they looked at...
