BACKGROUND. The purpose of the current study was to examine the screening histories of
women diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer (ICC) in 2000 who had previous …

BACKGROUND There is concern that Papanicolaou (Pap) smears without an endocervical
component may be associated with the incomplete detection of abnormalities. METHODS …

Introduction Prior screening results in women diagnosed with cervical carcinoma are only
reported in the literature in small numbers. We wish to examine a larger number of prior …

The purpose of this study was to gather data about the extent and nature of the observation
that many women with invasive cervical cancer were reporting a history of regular Pap …

Background The aim of this study was to examine, in a population not submitted to mass
screening, the risk of cancer and cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia (CIN) in Pap smears from …

Approximately half of women with a Papanicolaou (pap) test interpretation of “atypical
squamous cells, cannot exclude high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion”(ASC-H) will …

Objective: We questioned the diagnostic utility of cervical cytology by studying whether
women with colposcopically guided biopsy proven high-grade cervical dysplasia or cancer …

Objective: We prospectively studied the diagnostic utility of our Bethesda system–based
cervical cytology screening program with colposcopy and biopsy as the criterion standard …

Abstract BACKGROUND The 1991 Bethesda System for cervical/vaginal cytology reporting
defined adequacy criteria for the unsatisfactory designation. Most laboratories have …

BACKGROUND Papanicolaou smear sensitivity for cervical adenocarcinoma (CVCA) is not
well established. Also uncertain are the relative contributions to falsely negative diagnoses …