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Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (23 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: 143. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects to introduce the more accurate HPV test for cervical cancer screening; if these tests will be carried out in Irish laboratories; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22798/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (23 May 2018)

Simon Harris: The outcome of a health technology assessment carried out by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) for the National Screening Service was that the HPV test is a more accurate testing mechanism than the current liquid-based cytology, that the use of the HPV test would result in fewer false negative results, and that the use of the HPV test would result in more cancers...

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