{"id":3292,"date":"2023-11-20T13:48:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T11:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/hpv-and-cancer\/how-is-the-pap-test-performed\/"},"modified":"2024-07-04T14:52:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T11:52:51","slug":"how-is-the-pap-test-performed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/hpv-diseases\/hpv-diagnosis\/how-is-the-pap-test-performed\/","title":{"rendered":"How is the Pap test performed?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The woman sits in the gynecological chair, like she does during a gynecological examination. The doctor inserts the speculum inside the vagina and opens the vaginal canal to reveal the uterine cervix. A soft brush that looks like a tiny broom is brushed around the surface of the cervix and the endocervical canal, collecting cells. The test doesn\u2019t hurt. It may cause mild crampy discomfort for the patient. These cells are later stained and evaluated through a microscope (Figure).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1001\" src=\"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/24-1024x1001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/24-1024x1001.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/24-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/24-768x750.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/24-512x500.jpg 512w, https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/24-253x247.jpg 253w, https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/24.jpg 1093w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The woman sits in the gynecological chair, like she does during a gynecological examination. The doctor inserts the speculum inside the vagina and opens the vaginal canal to reveal the uterine cervix. A soft brush that looks like a tiny broom is brushed around the surface of the cervix and the endocervical canal, collecting cells. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5564,"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions\/5564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}