Sensitivity of conventional PAP smear in picking up cervical cancer is: September 2007
Correct Answer: 80%
Description: Ans. B: 80% A. In the conventional Pap smear, the physician collecting the cells smears them on a microscope slide and applies a fixative Studies of the accuracy of conventional cytology repo: Sensitivity 80% (False negative rate is 20%) Specificity 94% B. Since the mid-1990s, techniques based on placing the sample into a l containing a liquid medium that preserves the cells have been increasingly used. The media are primarily ethanol-based for Sure-Path and methanol for Thin Prep Studies of the accuracy of liquid based monolayer cytology repo: Sensitivity 61% to 66% Specificity 82% to 91%
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