Deciding to attend a cervical screening (smear test) appointment can be a difficult decision.
Screening is very much a personal choice, and it's important that women feel fully informed and comfortable with making the decision..
Pap smear results are reported as normal, abnormal, or unsatisfactory for evaluation.
A normal, also called negative, Pap smear result indicates that no evidence of abnormal cells were found in the sample..
An abnormal cervical screening test result means that you have changes in the cells covering the neck of your womb (cervix).
These changes are not cancer.
The cells often go back to normal by themselves.
But in some women, if not treated, these changes could develop into cancer in the future..
CSAS provides Prior Notification Lists (PNLs) to GP practices either hardcopy via post or electronically via Open Exeter approximately 10 weeks before patients' cervical screening tests are due..
A laboratory will report a sample as inadequate if the sample taker has not completely visualised the cervix, or if they took the sample in an inappropriate manner (for example with a sampling device not approved by the NHS Cervical Screening Programme ( NHSCSP ))..
Using fine-needle aspiration to draw a fluid sample from an area in your body
For some types of cytology tests that involve tissue samples, the healthcare provider who took the sample smears or spreads it on glass microscope slides
These slides are known as smearsThey then send the smears to a pathology laboratory
To have an informative final cytopathology report after doing the procedure and making the appropriate studies to make a specific diagnosis, it is very important that it expresses few important components
It is recommended that a statement describing if the material was adequate to make an interpretation is inserted in the final report
