Background: Cervical cancer is the commonest malignancy among women in India. It is also a major cause of deaths due to cancer in women in developing countries. Cervical carcinoma is caused by a virus called HPV virus. Screening of cervical carcinoma can be done as there is a lead time between the appearance of symptoms and the actual progession from abnormal cell cytology to invasive carcinoma. The knowledge about the same is lacking among the individuals. Methodology: The study was conducted among the patients attending the camp. After considering the inclusion and exclusion criteria the final sample size was 33. These people were screened for carcinoma using pap smear and also were ascessed for their knowledge about pap smear. Results: The mean age of women attending was found to be 46±8.4 years. Majority 30.3% thought method of detecting carcinoma to be attending the doctor’s clinic at regular interval. There were only 9.1% who knew pap smear as a method of detection. The knowledge was mostly obtained from ASHA workers 24.2%. 39.4% didn’t test for carcinoma as there were no symptoms. Visually most common finding was of hypertrophy and erosion. Least were bleeding on touch and infection. There was no correlation between visual inspection and PAP smear findings. Conclusion: Knowledge was better in the current study but there was no association between knowledge and source of knowledge and visual inspection and pap smear finding. Hence, more studies with specific screening criteria must be done.
