Some B.C. women could wait up to 140 days to receive their Pap test results, which would usually take one month.
Doctors have told some women in B.C. to expect to wait months to receive their Pap test results; a process that before the pandemic would typically take only one month.But it took six months to get the results — and they weren't good.
Abnormal cervical cells can potentially signal the onset of human papillomavirus , a common virus spread through sex, serious forms of which can lead to cervical cancer. Lily Proctor, medical director for B.C. Cancer's cervical cancer screening program, said the backlog is from aand the return to in-person health care since the start of the pandemic.
"So if there's anything abnormal, if there's anything they're worried about, they just have to mark on their requisition that it's urgent," Proctor said, adding those tests would be put to the front of the line.
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