Finding of new studies are showing that a new liquid-based test for cervical cancer is not any more effective than the tradional Pap smear test: " In a review of 56 studies, including more than one million slides, that looked at liquid-based and conventional cytology, Dr. Elizabeth Davey, from the University of Sydney in Australia, and colleagues found little differences in the two approaches. They report in the Lancet this week that the liquid-based tests did not detect any more serious cervical lesions, which could lead to cancer, than the conventional tests. Liquid-based and conventional cytology also produced a similar number of unsatisfactory slides."
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