Dirty Harryover 2 years ago

New Test Detects Cervical Cancer With 100 Percent Success Rate

A test for cervical cancer has a 100 percent success rate, significantly beating out the tests we currently use like the Pap smear and HPV test. Team of researchers, led by Queen Mary University of London, developed a new test and conducted a randomized clinical trial of 15,744 women aged 25 to 65 in Canada to see how well it worked. It spotted all eight of the invasive cervical cancers that developed in the women, while the Pap smear only detected a quarter of the cancers, and the HPV test detected half. Read full article...