Cervical cancer screening: Paragraph for This week in the BMJ was misleading

BMJ 2003; 327 doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7407.162 (Published 17 July 2003)
Cite this as: BMJ 2003;327:162.1

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  1. Jonathan Weintraub (labo@weintraub.ch), pathologist
  1. Laboratoire Weintraub, 22 ch Beausoleil, CH-1206 Geneva, Switzerland

    EDITOR—Coste et al evaluated different techniques in gynaecological cytology,1 but I could not find any comments in the paper about whether replacement of the conventional Pap smear by liquid based methods should be reconsidered, although this was highlighted in the accompanying paragraph for This week in the BMJ, “New cervical smear tests …

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