Women were given the wrong answer to their Pap smear – Aftonbladet

A single employee has misinterpreted the cell samples taken from women in Norrbotten.

A subsequent verification shows that a woman had been suffering from cervical cancer and 20 people were affected by cell changes that required treatment .

Now all samples this cytodiagnostician diagnosed after scrutiny.

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– We deeply regret the concern and the distress this may have created for sufferers, says Jonas Thörnqvist.

A lex Maria report has been prepared.

“Should not be allowed to happen”

Margaretha Sundsten, chairman of the patient association Gynsam, Gyncancerföreningarnas national cooperative organization, accessed by the news on Monday morning.

– this is very sad, it should not be allowed to happen, she says.

she would also like to wait to comment further because the details of the errors are still unknown.

– it would be very interesting to know what has gone wrong, she says.

– is it wrong in the interpretation of the results or the method?

she says what happened no matter is very unfortunate.

– this does not benefit our work because we pester girls all over the country to go on these cell sampling.

Every year approximately 450 women Sweden cervical cancer and about 200 die.

“Individual employees behind”

at 11:00 held a press conference at Sunderby hospital where representatives from the county council Unilabs attended, to try to clarify what really happened.

It was about a year ago as diagnostics company Unilabs launched a quality inspection of pap smear tests.

– what has happened is that we are at a subsequent verification, contained in the systematic quality work, discovered that an employee deviated from the findings of the preliminary stages, or cell changes, says Nicholas Holthuis, subscription charge of lex Maria cases of Unilabs.

the 20 women were found to have cell changes that needed to be treated and a woman turned on an early stage of cervical cancer.

– We deeply regret the errors detected. We consider this as a serious health damage, says Nicholas Holthuis.

In May 2012, discovered similar errors in Jämtland, where 192 false test results with lesions discovered in the ex post evaluation of the Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. But Jonas Thörnqvist, Deputy County Council of Norrbotten County Council, said at the press conference that you can depend on the county council.

– I want to emphasize that the vast majority of cases of cervical cancer detected is in women who have left the smear. Leaving the Pap smear is the absolute best way to detect the early stages, he said.

Nicholas Holthus would not comment on how the employee could do this glitch, but said that once it was revealed relocated person and autumn 2015 died she said.

– it is difficult to get to the bottom of this when the employee has died, but when something like this happens, we communicate within our business, he says.

“Great confidence for the Unilab “

Jonas Thörnqvist says he has continued confidence of Unilabs.

– we have great confidence in Unilab, we have had good cooperation.

Now the employee samplings between 2010-2014 after the audited total of 7200 samples. The review will be completed in summer, 2016.

How long has this employee worked at Unilabs?

– I do not have it in your head, but she has worked here for several years, says Nicholas Holthuis.

Why have you drawn the line at 2010?

– We want to cover a large number of samples to cover as many samples as possible. We still do not know if there are more errors.

The patients whose samples omgranskats and proved to be misconstrued have been informed and treated.

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