You can rent a smear at home

Many women are too embarrassed to regular Pap, with which you can detect the early stages of cervical cancer. It is for this category of scientists suggest home analysis.

Cervical smear   cytology, which is still called in medicine onkotsitologicheskim, is the most effective method of early diagnosis   cervical cancer . Often this dangerous disease are already at a late stage, in which all treatments are ineffective. From cervical cancer   in Russia die each year thousands of women.

In Britain, the public hospitals for some time now sends reminders official ladies that they should come and pass swab . Unfortunately, a significant number of women in these invitations is not responding as just shy to pass the test. Scientists propose to solve this problem in another way.

It is possible that in the future such a shy ladies will not send reminders, and special kits swab at home. These samples will be sent to the hospital, where an official response would come later. The researchers sent a group of 1 500 women household kits swab And the second - the official reminders to come to the hospital for analysis.

The first group of 96 women and 6% of a test carried out at home, was detected in 9 of human papillomavirus, while one of the women smear showed signs of invasive cancer. In another group of only 68 women went to the hospital Pap , And did so only after receiving the third consecutive invitation.

Since 1988, all British women aged 25 to 64 regularly invited doctors for taking cervical smears.

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