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Strategies & Market Trends : CYTC - How High Can It Go!
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To: Jack Hartmann who wrote (174)5/9/2000 10:37:00 PM
From: Jack Hartmann   of 185
 
Cytyc Corp Says ThinPrep May Be Useful For STD Screening
Dow Jones Newswires

BOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Cytyc Corp. (CYTC) said a recent study demonstrated the viability of testing for sexually transmitted diseases directly from its ThinPrep Pap Test PreservCyt collection vial.

In a press release Tuesday, the company said after preparing a ThinPrep Pap Test slide, the investigators tested the residual PreservCyt media for the presence of Chlamydia trachomatis using ligase chain reaction, or LCR.

The study then compared results for the ThinPrep Pap Test samples to urine and conventionally collected cervical samples tested by LCR and two additional nucleic acid amplification tests.

The ThinPrep specimens demonstrated equivalent sensitivity and specificity for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis when compared to the routine performance of traditionally collected methods, Cytyc said.

The study by Koumans et al. was conducted at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Emory University. The investigators presented the study at a recent joint meeting of the Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Diseases and the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association.

Cytyc makes the ThinPrep system for medical diagnostic applications.

-In Kyung Kim; Dow Jones Newswires; 201-938-5400
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7 Million dollar settlement by a local hospital in IL who misread a woman's pap smear for cervical cancer. She died four later.
Jack
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