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My cervical screening test result says I do not have HPV, so my cells have not been looked at. I am worried about this - why have my cells not been looked at?

All cervical screening samples in Wales are tested for high-risk types of HPV, which causes over 99.8% of cervical cancers.

Human Papillomavirus (HPV) was not found in your cervical sample. This is a reassuring result which means that we do not need to check your cervical cells. This is because your risk of developing high grade cell changes or cervical cancer within the next five years is very low.

We know that some people find this worrying and would prefer that we looked at the cells, but a test showing no HPV is more reliable than finding normal cells.