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Pap Test used for Cervical Screening

OCTOBER 23-29, 2011

National Cervical Cancer

Awareness Week

Know the odds:

  • each year in Canada, 400 000 women receive an abnormal Pap test result
  • each year, 1 300 to 1 500 are diagnosed with cervical cancer
  • each year, almost 400 will die of the disease
  • vaccination is 99% effective at preventing the types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that cause 70% of all cases of cervical cancer

Get a pap test today. Make an appointment with your health care provider OR book an appointment with the Health Unit's Nurse Practitioner or with a doctor in the Sexual Health Clinic

Pap tests are also available through the Sexual Health walk-in clinic on a first-come first-serve basis on Mondays and Thursdays.


For general information about Pap tests, click on the link below:

 

For information about the human papillomavirus (HPV), click on the link below:

Last Updated: 10/18/2011

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