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New diagnostic tests perform no better than conventional tests.(cervical cancer tests)(Brief Article)
2003 MAY 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- New cervical smear tests are unreliable and should not replace conventional tests, according to a new study.
Researchers in France studied 828 women referred to hospital because abnormalities had been detected on previous smears and 1,757 women attending for routine smears. Their results were published in the British Medical Journal.
Each woman underwent a conventional cervical smear test. The remaining material was then tested using two new methods (monolayer cytology and human papillomavirus testing). These tests are replacing conventional smear tests in several countries.
Conventional cervical smear tests were more often satisfactory and had consistently better sensitivity and specificity than monolayer cytology. Human papillomavirus testing performed no better than conventional smear ...
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...conventional Pap smear screen for cervical cancer as the most successful cancer screening...in the 1950s, the death rate from cervical cancer has declined by more than 70%. Currently...approximately 15,000 cases of cervical cancer are diagnosed each year, and approximately...
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