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Then you can look at these cells under the microscope
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and here's what a normal Pap smear would look like.
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You can see the cells are flat,
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they have small nuclei,
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not a lot of protein
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and so the cells don't stain very darkly.
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Malignant cells, on the other hand,
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cells that indicate there might be cancer present
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have larger nuclei,more intense staining, abnormal shapes.
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So, someone who looks at cells
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from cervical Pap smears all the time
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can quickly tell if there's the danger