You Have Been Referred for an At-Home Cervical Cancer Screening
Same HPV test and accuracy as screening in-clinic, but now you can collect your own sample, privately from home, and mail it to the lab for testing.
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How it works
Screen from home — no waiting room, no time off work, no speculum.
Order & meet your provider
Order and attend a brief virtual Intro Visit with a Teal Medical OBGYN or Nurse Practitioner to review the screening process.*
Collect at home
Your kit arrives in 3–5 days. Self-collect privately in about 5 minutes.
Get results
Mail with USPS. Results in your portal in ~1 week. Follow-up care coordinated if needed.
*The Teal Wand requires a prescription. A short virtual visit with a Teal Medical provider is needed for them to prescribe the kit before it mails.
Who should screen at home?
Between the screening ages of 25–65 years1
With a cervix (has not had a full hysterectomy)
Even if HPV-vaccinated — vaccination doesn't replace screening
Currently not recommended if pregnant, immunocompromised, have a history of reproductive cancer, HIV, DES exposure, or had a treatment for cervical precancer in the last 25 years (LEEP or cold knife cone). We walk you through a short eligibility form before ordering your kit.
1American Cancer Society screening guidelines
Accurate results. Collected by you.
Get the same accuracy as an in-clinic visit, with the comfort and privacy of Teal.
Designed for comfort
No speculum. A self-collection Wand with a small soft sponge, engineered with — and used by — thousands of women.
The same accuracy
Your sample is run with the FDA-approved Roche cobas® Primary HPV test — the sameone used in clinics.
Virtual provider care
A Teal Medical OBGYN or Nurse Practitioner meets with you prior to screening, reviews your result, and walks you through next steps if needed.
~5 minutes, at home
Collect privately in your bathroom. No travel, no time off, no feet in stirrups.
Pre-paid return mailer
Drop your sample in any USPS box or schedule a pick up. Results available in ~1 week.
Support that follows up
Abnormal result? A Teal Medical provider clearly defines next stepsand helps coordinate care locally.
Built to clinical standards. Designed for your comfort.
The Teal Wand was developed with and by women.
Cervical cancer screening (HPV test)
Self-collected vaginal sample
Roche cobas® Primary HPV (FDA-approved)
Teal Medical OBGYN or NP, licensed in your state
About 5 minutes
Confirmed in a 10-minute virtual visit
The clinical details, side by side.
We screen for the same high-risk HPV types as your doctor, with the same accuracy, but you collect the sample privately.
Preferred
At home, in private
Doctor's office
~15 mins
~45+ mins
No speculum
Speculum exam
Equal to in-clinic
Standard of care
Teal Medical OBGYN / NP
Your provider
None
Usually required
~1 week
1–3 weeks
1,954 reviews. And counting.
Teal customers
So quick and easy! Not to mention painless! It was a great first experience self-screening.
Loved everything about this at home screening and so thankful this exists!
The Teal Wand is very easy to use and I was in the comfort of my home. Grateful to Teal Health for this service.
OBGYNs and Nurse Practitioners —licensed in your state.
Every Teal Medical patient meets virtually with a provider before screening, has access to message in the portal, and has their results reviewed by a provider.
Rigorously tested so you can screen yourself with confidence
The Teal Wand was developed and tested in SELF-CERV, a multi-site study comparing self-collection to provider-collected samples in clinic. The data is what earned FDA authorization.
94%
of women preferred the Teal Wand
to in-clinic screening
98%
collected a valid sample on
the first try
1:1
clinical performance vs. an in-clinic exam (same accuracy)
Frequently asked questions
If you followed the instructions provided, you can feel confident that you have used the Teal Wand correctly. 98% of users successfully collected a valid sample.
Don't worry, if you don't collect enough sample, the HPV test will not report a result (instead, the outcome will show up as ‘invalid’). If this happens, we will contact you to discuss next steps.
Your results will be available in your Teal portal about one week after you send your sample to the lab. You will be notified via email and text when the results are ready to view.
Yes, once you have registered with Teal and before we ship your self-collection kit, you will meet with a Teal provider for a brief 10-minute virtual Intro Visit. During the visit, the provider will review your screening history, discuss the at-home self-collection process, and prescribe the Teal Wand kit if you are eligible.
Teal providers will also be available virtually throughout your at-home screening experience and will advise on next steps once your results are available.
Yes, the Teal Wand received FDA authorization after a rigorous nationwide clinical trial in which the Teal Wand was compared to the in-person exam with a speculum and brush. The clinical performance matched the in-person screening experience, and the Teal Wand was overwhelmingly preferred, with 94% of the participants stating they preferred the Wand to the current standard of screening. Learn more about the clinical trial.
Screening for HPV using the Teal Wand is an alternative to screening in-person for your Pap smear (cervical cancer screening). Therefore, once you have screened using the Teal Wand, you will not need to repeat the test in-office with the clinician.
Teal medical providers will review your results and recommend next steps (if applicable). Abnormal (positive for HPV) results may require in-person care for additional testing, which a Teal medical provider can help to coordinate.
Take five minutes for yourself.
See if at-home cervical cancer screening with the Teal Wand isright for you.