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HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE MODELLING AND INFORMATICS SEMINARS 2002/03 ----------------------------------------------------------------- All seminars are Tuesdays at 17:00 in room 5.05, at 9-18 Euston Centre, London (off Drummond Street, nearest tube: Warren Street) For more info or if interested in giving a talk, please contact me at the address at the end of this message. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 15 October 2002 --------------------- Speaker: Dr Chris Sherlaw-Johnson, Clinical Operational Research Unit, UCL, London --------------------- Title: Cervical cancer screening in the UK: can recent scientific advances improve it? --------------------- Abstract: In the UK, women are requested to attend for regular cervical cancer screening every 3 to 5 years between the ages of 21 and 64. The current screening test, the Pap smear, is known to be not entirely accurate, and several controversies have arisen over misdiagnosis and misreporting of test results. In recent years a number of scientific advances have led to ideas for improving cervical screening. These include exploiting the link between cervical cancer and human papillomavirus (HPV) by incorporating HPV testing. There are also new methods for preparing and reading smear test samples which could improve the accuracy of diagnosis. This paper will describe how these advances in screening have been evaluated using a stochastic modelling approach. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 12 November 2002 Speaker: Prof Peter Millard, HSCMG, University of Westminster and St. George’s Hospital, London Title and Abstract: TBC ----------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 10 December 2002 Speaker: Haifeng Xie, HSCMG, University of Westminster, London Title and Abstract: TBC ----------- Dr. T.J. Chaussalet University of Westminster CSCS, Dept of Mathematics 9-18 Euston Centre London NW1 3ET, UK Tel: +44(0)207 911 5000 ext 4310 Fax: +44(0)207 915 5438 Email: [log in to unmask] ----------- PLEASE READ: This e-mail and its attachments are intended for the above named only and may be confidential. If they have come to you in error you must not copy or show them to anyone, nor should you take any action based on them, other than to notify the error by replying to the sender. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states otherwise.