{"id":3296,"date":"2023-11-20T13:48:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T11:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/hpv-and-cancer\/can-a-pap-test-come-out-negative-and-miss-a-lesion\/"},"modified":"2023-11-20T13:48:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T11:48:14","slug":"can-a-pap-test-come-out-negative-and-miss-a-lesion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/hpv-diseases\/hpv-diagnosis\/can-a-pap-test-come-out-negative-and-miss-a-lesion\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a Pap test come out negative and miss a lesion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>What do we mean by a negative Pap test?<\/h3>\n<p>A negative Pap test means that no abnormal cells were found.<\/p>\n<h3>Can a Pap test come out negative and miss a lesion?<\/h3>\n<p>Yes, that\u2019s possible, because the cells are collected from the surface of the mucous membranes, and these are not always representative of the lesions inside the epithelium layers.<\/p>\n<h3>Is it possible to have more serious lesions than what the Pap test showed?<\/h3>\n<p>Yes, it is possible, for the reason mentioned in the previous question, but also because perhaps no cells were collected from the worse-off area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do we mean by a negative Pap test? A negative Pap test means that no abnormal cells were found. Can a Pap test come out negative and miss a lesion? Yes, that\u2019s possible, because the cells are collected from the surface of the mucous membranes, and these are not always representative of the lesions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3297,"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\/3296"}],"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=3296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}