<prompt> Sensitivity of conventional PAP smear in picking up cervical cancer is: September 2007708090100  <response>: Ans. B: 80 A. In the conventional Pap smear, the physician collecting the cells smears them on a microscope slide and applies a fixative Studies of the accuracy of conventional cytology repo: Sensitivity 80 False negative rate is 20 Specificity 94 B. Since the mid-1990s, techniques based on placing the sample into a l containing a liquid medium that preserves the cells have been increasingly used. The media are primarily ethanol-based for Sure-Path and methanol for Thin Prep Studies of the accuracy of liquid based monolayer cytology repo: Sensitivity 61 to 66 Specificity 82 to 91 