Thursday, April 9, 2009

Goodbye Pap Test

The pap smear may become a relic of the past. File it away with blood letting and arsenic when a new DNA test is brought to market that will enable women to be tested once every 5 to 10 years to detect cervical cancer.The annual Pap Smear has been around since the 1940s and requires a scraping of the cervix with a pathologist reading the smear and looking for abnormal cells. The new DNA test,