This year, a revolution in the Unpleasant Froat Test will arrive on the American market in the form of the first screening device for cervical cancer at home never approved by the FDA.
Offering the possibility of carrying out a vaginal swab test in the comfort of your own house, the Sarcelle wand is covered by several major insurers such as Anthem and Cigna.
The package includes the baguette and the swab as well as everything necessary to store the sample and send it to the Teal Health laboratory where a test for the HPV virus is carried out. Receiving the results on a smartphone, this is the first major change in the Froves PAP for more than 80 years depending on the company.
HPV represents almost all cases of cervical cancer in America, which, while gradually lowering from year to year, is increasing among rural and low -income populations. A home test is ideal for both and can help prevent some of the 4,000 deaths of the disease that should occur this year.
There are a variety of prevention and treatment options to treat cervical cancer. The abnormal cells identified in a test of PAP smear can be eliminated before becoming cancerous. There is also the HPV Gradasil-9 vaccine which protects from 9 known forms of the virus.
But between trying to take off the work and find someone to take care of children, the cervical cancer screenings are not rarely delayed far beyond the point where they would become most useful.
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“I think it’s very exciting”, Barbara Goff, a gynecological oncologist at Fred Hutch Cancer Center and at the University Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, told Science News. “He widens the cervical cancer screening for more women, which is good. And this makes (screening) more comfortable, which is also good. ”
Interested parties can join the waiting list and find out more, in particular concerning insurance coverage, on the Sarcelle health website.
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