ordinary pap smear only look at cells placed on the slide by the doc/nurse doing the smear.

if you get a poorly collected smear- contaminated heavily, dried up slide with cells all curled up, over enthuthiastic scrapping with thick layers of overlapping cells, you can imagine how inaccurate the report is going to be.

A better way now is to do the liquid based cytology, the doc/nurse just collect as much as possible the cells and let the lab spin down the cells and spread them out nicely for better visualisation and more accurate examination of the cells.

Has anybody done this?It has been available for few years already in the market.