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Whatever your age, an annual GYN exam includes:

A breast exam to check for lumps, skin changes, or nipple discharge. A pelvic exam to check your vulva, vagina, cervix, uterus, rectum, and pelvis, including your ovaries, for masses, growths or other abnormalities. A Pap test to screen for cervical cancer.

A Pap smear, also called a Pap test, is a procedure to test for cervical cancer in women.

A Pap smear involves collecting cells from your cervix — the lower, narrow end of your uterus that’s at the top of your vagina.

Detecting cervical cancer early with a Pap smear gives you a greater chance at a cure. A Pap smear can also detect changes in your cervical cells that suggest cancer may develop in the future. Detecting these abnormal cells early with a Pap smear is your first step in halting the possible development of cervical cancer.

The HPV test checks cells for infection with high-risk HPV types. The Pap test (also called a Pap smear or cervical cytology) collects cervical cells and looks at them for changes caused by HPV that may—if left untreated—turn into cervical cancer. It can also detect cervical cancer cells.

Your health care provider tests you for STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) by taking either a blood sample or a swab from any genital sores you might have. A lab specialist studies the sample in a lab. Your provider also takes a blood sample to test for HIV and hepatitis.

Birth control is how you prevent pregnancy. There are lots of different birth control options out there. We’re here to help you figure it all out.

Pick what’s important to you to find your best birth control method:

• Birth Control Implant
• IUD
• Birth Control Shot
• Birth Control Vaginal Ring
• Birth Control Patch
• Birth Control Pill
• Condom
• Internal Condom
• Diaphragm
• Birth Control Sponge
• Spermicide and Gel
• Cervical Cap
• Vasectomy

A breast self-exam for breast awareness is an inspection of your breasts that you do on your own. To help increase your breast awareness, you use your eyes and hands to determine if there are any changes to the look and feel of your breasts.

If you notice new breast changes, discuss these with your doctor. Though most breast changes detected during a self-exam for breast awareness have benign causes, some changes may signal something serious, such as breast cancer.

Menstrual disorders are problems that affect a woman’s normal menstrual cycle. They include painful cramps during menstruation, abnormally heavy bleeding, or not having any bleeding.

Menstruation occurs during the years between puberty and menopause.

Menstruation, also called “menses” or a “period,” is the monthly flow of blood from the uterus through the cervix and out through the vagina.

Menstrual disorders include:

• Dysmenorrhea refers to painful cramps during menstruation.
• Premenstrual syndrome refers to physical and psychological symptoms occurring prior to menstruation.
• Menorrhagia is heavy bleeding, including prolonged menstrual periods or excessive bleeding during a normal-length period.
• Metrorrhagia is bleeding at irregular intervals, particularly between expected menstrual periods.
• Amenorrhea is the absence of menstruation.
• Oligomenorrhea refers to infrequent menstrual periods.
• Hypomenorrhea refers to light periods.

Several types of diseases and conditions can cause pelvic pain. Chronic pelvic pain can result from more than one condition.

Pelvic pain can arise from your digestive, reproductive or urinary system. Recently, doctors have recognized that some pelvic pain, particularly chronic pelvic pain, can also arise from muscles and connective tissue (ligaments) in the structures of the pelvic floor.

Pelvic pain might also be caused by irritation of nerves in the pelvis.

Pelvic pain arising from the female reproductive system might be caused by conditions such as Ectopic pregnancy, Menstrual cramps, Miscarriage, Mittelschmerz, Ovarian cancer, Ovarian cysts, and Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID).