Original sentence: Cervical Cancer: Prevention/Screening from MedlinePlus.NCI Bethesda System Web Atlas - 349 Pap smear images, from American Society of Cytopathology.Questions and Answers about the Pap test (USNIH).The Bethesda 2001 Workshop, held April 30 - May 2, 2001, reviewed issues regarding terminology and reporting of cervical cytology.eMedicine Health Pap Smear.es:Prueba de Papanicolaou.it:Pap test.ms:Ujian lumur PAPThe Pap smear, as it is currently known, is an invention of Dr
Edited sentence: Cells are then taken to a lab where they are analysed to try and detect pre-cancerous changes.Cramps and Thrush often follow, caused by the genital area being exposed in such an unnatural way.However, when one examines the procedure rationally, and what the patient is expected to allow, one can see that the test obviously breaks most peoples true sense of dignity & privacy; transporting countless millions of scared people into a situation where they are exposed to a great deal of totally unnecessary sexual contact.People are brought up to beleive the PAP/smear test is something women just have to do.The Pap smear, as it is currently known, is an invention of Dr.The patient is made to undress and spread their legs before being penetrated by the medical practitioner, with a victorian devise called a speculum.The smear test is an invasive, uncomfortable and usually painful test, used to innaccurately determine whether a woman is going to develop cancer of the cervix.The test involves the patient completely disregarding her sense of dignity and privacy, usually due to culturally ingrained suspicion that they are going to get cancer.The test involves what, in any other context, would be considered sexual assault, as the patient will allow herself to be treated more intimately than she would with her sexual partner.The test is widely regarded as not being sexual.This is used to prize the vagina open until the womans uterus can be viewed and scraped at easily.This usually leaves the woman feeling dirty and traumatised, so much it is almost completely wiped from her memory before she is even out of the surgery.This, combined with the idea that anything medical is somehow automatically acceptable, or non-sexual, allows this test to re-perpetuate itself in most societies