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Cervical Cancer
Automation-assisted screening effective in Finnish public health trial
June 23rd, 2005
Automation-assisted cervical cancer screening has been highly useful in a Finnish public health program. Oncologists in Finland conducted a study "to evaluate automation-assisted screening, in comparison to the conventional method, in a routine population-based cervical cancer screening program." "Our study is based on an individually randomized design involving approximately 160,000 invitees and 110,000 attendees every year," explained P. Nieminen and coauthors at the University of Helsinki. "From 1999 to 2001, 471,297 women were invited to attend and 330,445 smears were screened (attendance rate 70.1%), of which 220,254 were tested conventionally...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-06-23)
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