Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 May 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme
9:00 am
Mr. John Gleeson:
Dr. Holohan might know more about this, but the HPV test being recommended for use is considered to have a higher sensitivity to the disease, meaning that if one gets a negative result, the negative predictive value is better than that achieved through cytology. There is less risk of a false negative or that a person will develop cervical cancer within the next appreciable interval to the next test.
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