A pap test is a simple test which can help in early diagnosis of cervical cancer. It is cheap, easily available and a completely painless procedure where your doctor takes some fluid from your cervix ( the mouth of the uterus) and sends it for testing. Every sexually active woman from 20 years to 6o years should do it , at least once in 3 years.
It helps in diagnosis
of cervical cancer, the second common cancer in Indian women, after breast
cancer.