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
Dr. Peter McKenna:
My understanding is that the vast majority of the 1,482 cases were found appropriately by cytology and referred for colposcopy and the diagnosis was made in that way. The number was narrowed down to the 400 figure which the Deputy mentioned, and out of those the other concerns were removed, as we have heard. In the remaining 208 cases, cytology was the remaining issue. It was those 208 cases where there a possibility of false negative cytology.
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