Beyond the pap smear: Potential to detect cervical cancer earlier than ever before

While the mortality rate for cervical cancer has declined dramatically since the 1970s, more than 400 Canadian women succumbed to the disease in 2019. A new paper, published in the International Journal of Cancer, by researchers at McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine, supports a novel alternative to standard pap smears and human papillomavirus (HPV) tests, one that has the potential to detect cervical cancer earlier than ever before.
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