EIGHT women who had their smear tests misread by screeners went on to develop cancer, a major review has found. Eleven more were found to have pre-cancerous changes to cells and needed treatment ...
as did a random sample of women who tested negative. The sensitivity of HPV testing was 94.6%, whereas that of Pap testing was 55.4%. The specificity was 94.1% for HPV testing and 96.8% for Pap ...