Getting a Pap smear isn’t amongst my favourite issues to do, rating someplace between consuming cauliflower (ugh) and going to the dentist (worse). I normally discover the expertise awkward, however it must be performed — each three years for many sufferers, in line with the American School of Obstetricians and Gynecologists — to detect adjustments in cervical cells which will change into cancerous. Over the previous 30 years in the USA, the variety of cervical most cancers instances and deaths has decreased by half, primarily due to the rise in screenings.

