ok i was just at the doctors office she did a std test on me and a pap smear the std test came negative and he pap smear came abnormal so she said that means theres cancerous cells which u need to referred to get an biopsy i believe so does this mean i have it ?and what does it mean when u get back abnormal papsmear at the time i had yeast infection and bacteria could that have caused the pap smear to be abnormal
Hi, Thanks for writing in. Abnormal pap smear does not mean cancer in every patient. Sometimes the cells on pap smear might also be suspicious for cancer and not true cancer. For this reason a biopsy is advised and your doctor. The pap smear is scraping cells from the cervix with a spatula and studying under the microscope. The biopsy consists of sampling a larger amount of tissue and then seeing the pattern. Biopsy is confirmatory of cancer and if your biopsy is positive then treatment is required. Sometimes the changed cells are due to other types of infection, such as those caused by bacteria or yeast causing doubt on pap smear and biopsy is more important. Please do not worry.