New test improves cervical cancer detection
Routine smear tests have considerably reduced the number of cases, but despite intensive screening 250 women in Sweden still die from cervical cancer every year. Researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy have developed new methods of minimising the number of missed cases and making diagnosis more reliable.Since the introduction of organised screening in the 1960s, the number of women being diagnosed with and succumbing to cervical cancer has fallen dramatically. Screening, where a sample of cells is collected from the cervix and examined under an optical microscope, detects early cell changes so