Cervical Cancer (Diagnostics)

Results of Papnet Testing Reported at Conference

Published in Women's Health Weekly, April 14th, 1997

Data showing that cervical cancer and precancer detection can be enhanced with the recently introduced Papnet technology was presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists, held March 26, 1997, in Phoenix, Arizona.

Data from more than 16,000 smears indicate that the neural network-based Papnet test found many pre-cancerous abnormalities missed by conventional manual microscopic screening. Despite having an abnormality present on the smear, these slides were originally reported as negative, thus resulting in a false-negative diagnosis. While still not perfect, Papnet testing was shown to identify 10 times more false-negative smears than...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (1997-04-14)

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