Self-collection means swabbing your vagina to get a sample of cells to test in the lab. In this case, the sample is used to ...

When her husband was undergoing cancer treatment, Cindy Perez of Southwest Ranches, Fla., learned about a new blood test that could help find early cancers. The 50-year-old said she felt fine, but her ...

A research team led by La Trobe University has developed a single-use test strip that could ultimately change how diseases ...

Testing for high-risk human papillomaviruses every five years – even with a self-collected sample – is the “preferred screening strategy” for cervical cancer starting at age 30, according to a new ...

Regular cervical cancer screening using HPV testing and/or Pap tests can prevent up to 90% or more of cervical cancers by detecting and treating precancerous lesions early, making it one of the most ...

Screening for the second leading cause of cancer deaths just got a bit easier. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the approval of a new blood test for colorectal cancer (CRC).

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Grail's Galleri test screens for more than 50 different types of cancer from a single blood draw. (Getty Images) (Getty Images) If ...

A new blood test to screen for colon cancer was approved Monday by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), aimed at finding cancer when it’s still in the early stage and treatable. The blood test, ...

Pulmonary function tests are a group of noninvasive breathing tests that measure how much air your lungs can hold, how quickly you can move air in and out and how efficiently your lungs transfer ...

This past week, two patients came in with different versions of the same request. A healthy man in his late 40s brought in a printout of his exhaustive blood test panel and wanted my advice on how to ...

Jeff Smith was dumbfounded when he received a colon cancer screening kit in the mail. The 68-year-old Minnesota man hadn't asked for the Cologuard test, and his doctor hadn't mentioned anything about ...