Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 December 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Independent Expert Panel Review into Cervical Screening: Discussion

Professor Henry Kitchener:

It is. The Deputy also asked about the 30% that we reclassified, I think on behalf of someone, as high grade among our negatives. Among our negatives, just over half are reviewed as negative. That is very close to the figure that was identified in the English audit - just over 50%. Out of the remaining half, approximately one third were classified as low-grade abnormalities and two thirds as high-grade abnormalities. Therefore, the majority of non-negative smears on review were, in fact, high-grade and as a proportion of the total happen to be 30%, an entirely different 30% from the two sets of 30% we have just discussed.

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