What an Abnormal Smear Test Results?
In the US, women are offered regular Pap smear tests, as well as other services to prevent diseases such as cervical cancer from developing. In 2007 alone, about 318,220 women were screened for cervical cancer through a Pap smear test and found 4,996 cervical cancers and high-grade precancerous lesions. Hearing such things as “cervical cancers” and “high-grade precancerous lesions” must be very scary for women. It can also be scary (and at the same time very confusing) to hear that your Pap smear tests is not “normal”. What does an abnormal Pap smear test mean? Unlike finding out that you have cervical cancer or precancerous lesions, most of the time; an abnormal a Pap smear means you will have to repeat your Pap test sooner that normal. Or that your smear test result requires further investigation at the hospital. An abnormal smear though, does not mean that you have cervical cancer, or that you’ll develop it in the future. And with programs such as the NBCCEDP in place, women, includ
