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Dr Spriggs makes a critical appraisal of the practice of testing for cancer of the cervix by means of cervical smears.
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SPRIGGS, A. Population Screening by the Cervical Smear. Nature 238, 135–137 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/238135a0
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