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Two senior medics in Northern Ireland’s cervical screening programme warned of ‘another major scandal’ without reform of ...

Two senior medics involved in NI's cervical screening programme have resigned over their concerns about the service.

Kouakou, K. , Djivohessoun, A. , Djoman, I. , Gro-Bi, A. , Soro, C. , Mansou, K. , Nyango, S. and Folquet, A. (2024) ...

The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force has drafted a new recommendation for cervical cancer screening. The biggest change: ...

Eight women who developed cervical cancer were misdiagnosed as negative by a screener in the Southern Health Trust, a review ...

Additionally, 96% of those who attended for a smear test had a “normal” result. Overall, 64 women were invited for a gynaecology or colposcopy appointment for further assessment and 11 of these women ...

For all of the review period 2008 – 2021, Northern Ireland used cytology-based screening which involves making a slide from the smear test sample and looking at it under a microscope.

Contributions of Liquid-Based (Papanicolaou) Cytology and Human Papillomavirus ... Food and Drug Administration-Approved high-risk HPV test for the detection of high-grade cervicovaginal lesions.

Testing for high-risk human papillomaviruses every five years – even with a self-collected sample – is the “preferred ...

or co-test with both HPV testing and cervical cytology. HPV testing “has the best balance of benefits and harms, but the other two are effective screening options as well, and so therefore they ...