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It’s Cervical Screening Awareness Week, which means it’s a week of encouraging anyone with a cervix to book their smear test, even more than we normally do. Is this a test for cancer? A lot of people think that a smear test is a test for cervical cancer, but it isn’t. It’s a test that looks at the sample of cells taken from the cervix. If ‘abnormal’ cells are found, it means they could potentially develop into a cancer if left untreated. Your doctors will make a decision on what treatment is nee