{"id":234999,"date":"2026-01-13T00:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/234999\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T00:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:31:15","slug":"dr-erin-kobetz-is-available-to-discuss-at-home-testing-for-cervical-cancer-as-an-alternative-to-the-traditional-pap-smear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/234999\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Erin Kobetz is available to discuss at-home testing for cervical cancer as an alternative to the traditional Pap Smear."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At-Home Testing as an Alternative to Pap Smear &#8211; Within the past month, both the American Cancer Society AND the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force have endorsed an alternative to the traditional Pap Smear \u2013 an at-home test for the virus that causes cervical cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Erin Kobetz, PhD, MPH,\u00a0vice president for health promotion and chief well-being officer at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/umiamihealth.org\/en\/sylvester-comprehensive-cancer-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center,<\/a>\u00a0part of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, is available for interviews.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kobetz is and has been a leading advocate for self-sampling.<\/p>\n<p>Bio:\u00a0https:\/\/med.miami.edu\/faculty\/erin-kobetz-phd-mph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At-Home Testing as an Alternative to Pap Smear &#8211; Within the past month, both the American Cancer Society&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[127568,163,85,46,127570,983,127569,23200],"class_list":["post-234999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-cervical-cancercervical-cancer-self-screeningcervical-cancer-screeningpap-smear-alternativealternative-to-pap-smearat-home-screening-for-cervical-cancererin-kobetz","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mph","tag-newswise","tag-phd","tag-sylvester-comprehensive-cancer-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}