Want to reduce your risk of cervical cancer? Don't skip your pap tests.

After studying the screening histories of more than 4,000 women, researchers at CancerCare Manitoba found that among women diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer, more than half of them hadn't had a pap test for five years.

And get this: for every 10-year increase in age, screening decreased by 20 per cent, meaning women are skipping important opportunities to have precancerous lesions caught early.

Learn more about cervical cancer and more medical tests to get regularly.