ASC-US

ASC-US of the Cervix: Understanding Your Pathology Report

ASC-US stands for “atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance.” It is a result on a Pap test (also called a Pap smear) that means some of the squamous cells collected from the surface of your cervix look slightly abnormal under the microscope. The changes are not clearly normal, but they are also not clearly precancerous, …
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How to read your Pap test report

What is a Pap test? The Pap test is a screening test that looks for abnormal cells in the vaginal portion of the uterine cervix. It is called a screening test because it is designed to detect disease before a person experiences any symptoms. The test was named after Dr. Georgios Papanicolaou who invented the …
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