Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 October 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion
9:00 am
Dr. Karin Denton:
No, the audit in the United Kingdom assumed that samples taken within six months of the diagnosis of cancer were diagnostic. Obviously, one does not want to include in a review the sample that actually precipitated the diagnosis because that is the one that worked. One has to have a cut-off point. In the United Kingdom it is six months. A period of 18 months is very long.
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