When you have your period, the blood and other tissue can affect the results of the test. Unless your provider advises otherwise, it's best to schedule a Pap smear for one to two weeks after you expect your period, or five days after your period ends.1 If your cycle is unpredictable a...
Your doctor will lightly brush the cervix to take a sample of cells. They’ll place them into a liquid substance in a small jar and send them to a lab for review. Pap smear tool The tool used for the Pap smear is the speculum. It has two arms on a hinge, like a bird's bill....
A Pap smear is a simple, quick, and relatively painless screening test. Itsspecificity,which means its ability to avoid classifying a normal smear as abnormal (a "false positive" result), while very good, is not perfect. Thesensitivityof a Pap smear, which means its ability to detect every...
Pap smears are essential to protect yourself against the devastating consequences of cervical cancer. Formé Medical Center and Urgent Care in White Plains, New York, offers routine Pap smears to women, including testing for HPV (human papillomavirus) infection, the primary cause of cervical cancer....
If your Pap smear results come back abnormal, this means that the test detected abnormally shaped cells in your sample. Abnormal Pap smears are often the result of a cervical or vaginal infection, not cancer. Depending on your case, your healthcare provider may order additional testing to colle...
The present invention relates to a Ba's smear sampling device for examining cervical carcinoma cells, including a sampling head capable of nestling up to the surface of cervix uteri and scraping it to collect sample cell and a slender handle capable of allowing the sampling head to make ...
smear [smēr] a specimen for microscopic study, the material being spread thinly and unevenly across the slide with a swab or loop, or with the edge of another slide. Smears from opaque thick liquids or semisolids, such as stool, can be made using a swab to sample and smear the ...
For an ASCUS abnormal Pap smear result: The next step here depends largely on your age. If you’re between 21 and 29, your doctor may just ask you to come in for a repeat Pap anywhere up to a year from receiving your abnormal result. But they might also want you to come in for ...
A Pap smear can detect certain viral infections such as human papillomavirus (HPV), which is known to cause cervical cancer. Early treatment of precancerous changes detected on the Pap smear can stop cervical cancer before it fully develops.
In this case, the patient should be scheduled for an additional smear sample to be taken which, in effect, doubles the inconvenience to the patient, the work of the doctor or paramedic and the consequent expense. Also, the patient may be distressed from having been asked to return for an ...