… The introduction of an effective cervical cancer screening program with the Papanicolaou …
with cervical dysplasia. We specifically evaluated adolescents with a cytologic diagnosis of low-…

… ) would have been discovered if we had limited colposcopy and biopsy to those with high-grade
cytologic findings or “rule out invasive cancer” Papanicolaou smear results. …

… The Papanicolaou test is credited with the drastic reduction in the incidence and mortality
rates of cervical cancer in the … This study presents the largest cohort of both cytologically and …

… technologies for cervical cytological screening with conventional Papanicolaou (Pap) test …
Findings were relatively insensitive to assumptions about cervical cancer incidence, cost of …

… Pap smear has been utilized for cervical cancer screening for more than 50 years. Despite
being credited with a 70% reduction in mortality for cervical cancer, … Liquid based cytology has …

… Co-Testing is more likely to find abnormal cells or cervical cancer than a Pap test … cervical
cancer screening in women 25 years and older, and (b) reflex testing of an ASCUS cytology …

… cervical cancer in individual patients. The mainstay of screening programs has been the Pap
smear, introduced originally by George Papanicolaou … adjunct to cytology in routine cervical …

… cytology-based cervical cancer prevention programs have reduced the incidence of cervical
cancer in many industrialized countries, the limited sensitivity of cervical cytology makes …

… Since the 1950s, the steady decline in cervical cancer incidence and mortality has been
attributed to widespread cervical cancer screening [1, 2]. The Papanicolaou (Pap) smear is the …

… These classifications reflect the established Bethesda pathological classification system
used for examining the cytological changes in cervical neoplasia. Extensive experiments show …