Patients waiting months for routine pap test results amid lab backlog
If you’ve recently had a routine pap test, you may be waiting months to hear your results.
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If you’ve recently had a routine pap test, you may be waiting months to hear your results.
Pap test results delayed in Ontario; pandemic backlog, staffing shortages blamed. Linda Luyt of Sudbury among those waiting for results.
As an endometrial cancer survivor, Linda Luyt gets quite anxious waiting for the results of her annual Pap test to show she is still free of the disease.
Pap test results delayed in Ontario; pandemic backlog, staffing shortages blamed. Linda Luyt of Sudbury among those waiting for results.
Both LifeLabs and Dynacare, large private labs that process millions of tests a year, acknowledged delays though neither quantified the scope.