Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong Pap smear screening is a multi-step process that involves recruitment of patients, taking smear, making and reading slides and issuing reports to alert clinicians to take appropriate action. In the last decade, innovative technologies including liquid base cytology, automated screening and human papilloma viru...

OBJECTIVE To perform a Bayesian analysis of data from a previous meta-analysis of Papanicolaou (Pap) smear accuracy (Fahey et al. Am J Epidemiol 1995; 141:680-689) and compare the results. METHODS We considered two Bayesian models for the same data set used in the Fahey et al. study. Model I was a beta-binomial model which considered the number of true positives and false negatives as indepen...

: One of the most prevalent cancers, cervical cancer is also leading cause mortality for women in underdeveloped nations. A fundamental test finding infections and precancerous diseases Papanicolaou smear. This study aims to comprehend function screening detecting premalignant, malignant, non-neoplastic lesions as well prevalence different who received a traditional pap smear technique. We scre...

INTRODUCTION Sunlight's UV B component, a known cellular immunosupressant, carcinogen, and activator of viral infections, is generally seasonally available. Venereal human papillomavirus (HPV) transmission, at least in part, causes cervical cancer. We have previously inspected the monthly rates of venereal HPV infection and sunlight fluency in Southern Holland over 16 consecutive years. Both pe...