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. Tony O'Brien:

My reading of the information that goes out by CervicalCheck, then and now, makes it very clear that there are both false negatives and false positives associated with cervical cytology. It is not 100% effective. In the public discourse we have heard a lot of talk about people being given the "all clear". I understand that is a shorthand approach but it conveys a certain meaning. The result is "no abnormality detected". It is not an "all clear".

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