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What Does It Mean When Your Pap Smear Results Are Normal?
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Ask the Experts
Hemorrhoids and Anal Pap Smears; do they interfere which each other? If I have a normal Pap smear, am I HPV-free?Do the presence of hemmorhoids make the results of an anal pap smear turn out abnormal?Also, if a first anal pap smear comes out normal, and there is no sexual activity since then, are future anal pap smears required? Does a normal result indicate...
Response from Bruce Dezube, M.D.
Harvard Medical School
These are three excellent questions1) Do hemorrhoids interfere with the Anal Pap test-- probably not. However, if the hemorrhoids are inflammed, then inflammation can indeed affect the Pap test. Although hemorrhoids will not cause a PAP test to...
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Annual anal PAP smears; who should get them? atypia-- what does this meanIn the mid 1970s I had anal warts. They were treated topically and never reoccurred. I was infected... Read more »Pap smear & colposcopy- are they different?Hello,I am very confused on my test results and would appreciate if you could shed some light. At... Read more »
Articles
New Pap Smear Guidelines Advise Less Frequent TestsWomen should receive Pap screening no more than every three years, beginning at age 21 regardless of sexual history, say national guidelines released Wednesday. The new US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations are for healthy... Read more »
Pap Smear PrimerRecommendations for Positive Women HIV positive women often need more frequent Pap smears. Remember not to douche (douching is not good for any woman, anyway, see "Douching is Bad for You ," September/October 2000), use a tampon, and do not have... Read more »
Regular Pap Smear Is as Effective as ThinPrepThe liquid-based cytology test ThinPrep now represents 70 percent of the U.S. cervical cancer screening market, but a new report finds it no more effective than the conventional Pap smear at detecting precancerous cells. In the study, 89,784 Dutch... Read more »
News Briefs About Women and HIVNew Guidelines for Abnormal Pap Smear Results Combination Pap Smear and HPV Testing for Cancer Screening Number of Lifetime Sexual Partners and Cervical Cancer Risk Women More Likely Than Men to Disclose an STI HIV, African-American Women, and... Read more »
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Abnormal pap smear
Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies
My doctor just informed me that my pap smear was abnormal. Could this be an indication of HIV infection?I possibly had an exposure Feb, tested Neg End of April. Read more » Please explain what these results mean
Posted by Soloandlonely, 4 Replies
Dear,I hope someone will be able to help with explaining what the following information mean? Does it mean one needs treatment or not? RNA copies : 160080 cp/ml Log units : 5.204 CD4 ( 444) Please answer.. Read more » What does all this mean
Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies
I've just recieved my test results at 8 months to the day post exposure and they are as follows...Negative ELISA HIV 12 Negative Western Blot HIV 12 Negative PCR DNA HIV -1 Negative P24 Antigen Does this mean that I can rule out HIV infection? The nurse... Read more »
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