When people go to doctor to take some medical analysis, usually undertake this task because they experience some symptoms or hardly ever for periodic checks. However, the results of the analysis may be a reason to become restless or frightening. If we talk about cervical cancer, more specifically of the possibility of receiving a call from the medical office that the result of your pap smear test came back abnormal. All women who receive this news, think at cervical cancer. After they gather more information about the cervical cancer and they talk with the doctor they realize that the result of the pas smear test may indicate a minor cervix problem that may be cured with or without treatment.

What is a pap smear test? The Pap smear test is a sample of cells taken from the surface of the cervix and examined to the microscope. The result of the test may indicate long before the cancer to develop if the cells from the cervix have developed any abnormal changes. The pre cervical cancer is easy to treat and all most always prevents the development of the cervical cancer.
The classification of the Pap smear test result:
-normal, or a small variation of normal called “irritation”;
-probably normal, mild changes that should sure be evaluated further;
-pre-cancerous changes;
-invasive cancer .
What is cervical dysplasia? Cervical dysplasia represents a disordered growth of the cervix cells. In cervical dysplasia the organized growth process doesn’t exist. The mild dysplasia is characterized by only a few abnormal cells, while the moderate dyspasia is characterized by almost one half of the abnormal cells of the surface lining of the cervix.



Severe dysplasia or carcinoma in situ (“cancer in place”), in this case the all cells are abnormal, but the abnormal cells have not spread outside the surface of the cervix. The untreated dysplasia no matter the stage will cause invasive cervical cancer, that is the abnormal cells will spread in time and affect other organs of the body, lymph or blood.
The dysplasia may be determined on a routine Pap smear test and to determine the exact stage of the abnormal cells from the cervix a colposcopy is made.
The treatments for cervical dysplasia can be chosen taking into consideration the severity of the disease, the age of the woman, other gynecological problems that she might have, the financial possibility, etc.
The multiple treatments for cervical dysplasia include:
-cryotherapy (freezing) – is a not expensive procedure is made by placing a probe against the cervix, in order to cool the cervix to a sub-zero temperatures. The frozen cells are eliminated in the coming months through a heavy drain. This is not a sure procedure, because is possible to live behind abnormal cells. The stage of dysplasia treated with this disease is mild and moderate dysplasia, is not recommended to treat severe dysplasia or carcinoma-in situ.
-laser treatment – this treatment uses the carbon dioxide laser to vaporize the abnormal cells and creates little discomfort. This procedure is more expensive than the freezing, but is more efficient, dead tissue is not left behind.
-loop excision -  this procedure is usually done under local anesthesia, causes little discomfort and is done by removing the abnormal cells from the cervix with a wire loop with electrical energy. This is a procedure used to diagnose and treat the disease in the same time.
-hysterectomy -  this procedure is a major surgical procedure and is not recommended to women who want to have a baby in the future.