Journal of AdvancedMedical and Dental Sciences Research

Introduction: The objective of this study was to evaluate cervical smears and its role in the screening of cervical cancer and precancerous lesions in a tertiary care hospital. Materials and Methods: Relevant clinical data were obtained from the patients and recorded. The specimen for Pap smears were collected from the squamocolumnar junction by the Ayer’s spatula and cytobrush under aseptic methods, and the obtained cellular materials were quickly smeared on a clean glass slide. Slides were fixed with absolute alcohol and were stained with Pap stain. Results: Negative for intraepithelial lesion or malignancy (NILM) was reported in 97.4% of all the adequate smears and 90.8% of the total smears taken for the study. Out of all the NILM cases, majority cases (94.8%, i.e., 4346/4581) were reparative benign cellular reactive changes, followed by normal smears (5.01% i.e., 235/4581) Conclusion: Pap smear testing is a very useful, simple, economical and safe tool to detect preinvasive cervical epithelial lesions. Keywords: malignancy, Pap smear testing, cervical smears.