How long does it take for TCT and HPV tests to produce results?

HPV virus infection is one of the viral infections that can easily cause cervical cancer in women. It usually occurs in women over 30 years old, so women should pay great attention to it. As women nowadays have a higher awareness of physical and mental health, some women will do cervical cancer screening once a year. The more common tests are TCT and HPV virus tests, but some women who are doing this test for the first time don’t know: How long does it take for the results of cervical tct and hpv tests to come out?

First of all, the TCT test is faster because it uses diagnostic imaging tests, but any hospital that can perform TCT tests can usually get results on the same day. Some hospitals are even so fast that it only takes 20 minutes to get the results of a TCT test. However, the results of HPV testing are much slower, because this involves quantitative testing of HPV virus identification. If it only screens whether it is positive, the speed is still relatively fast, and you can usually go out on the same day. However, when it comes to quantitative analysis of HPV virus identification, that is, exactly what type of virus is infected and how much the virus type costs, the speed will be much slower.

Secondly, it is best to go to a professional hospital for a physical examination, such as a local center for disease control or a STD clinic, for HPV testing. Because this type of hospital has advanced diagnosis and treatment technology for HPV virus, both the detection and treatment speeds are relatively fast. If you do the test in a small hospital, or in a third- or fourth-tier city with relatively backward medical technology, because it does not have the qualifications to test HPV, it will need to send the sample to a nearby city for analysis. This round trip will take at least 7 days. Therefore, cervical examination TCT and HPV examination are also related to the patient's region.

The above is a detailed introduction to "How long does it take for cervical test TCT and HPV test to produce results". It can be seen from the above introduction that the TCT inspection time is generally not long, and most of the results are available on the same day. However, the professional level of HPV virus testing is much higher, so the testing speed will be slower, and it may even take more than 7 days.