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Abstract
The Pap smear unquestionably is a successful screening test for cervical cancer. However, recent advances in technology have raised questions regarding whether the conventional Pap smear is still the standard of care. This article relates issues of screening and cost-effectiveness to the state of the art in thin layer preparations, cytology automation, human papillomavirus screening, human papillomavirus vaccines, and other cervical screening adjuncts. Perhaps nowhere in medicine is clinical decision making being more strongly influenced by market and other external forces than in cervical cytopathology.Entities:
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Year: 2000 PMID: 10757338 DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.3880048
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mod Pathol ISSN: 0893-3952 Impact factor: 7.842