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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 20.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2012 Sep 13;32(11):1865–1876. doi: 10.1002/sim.5601

Figure 2. Net benefit against plotted against threshold probability for repeat tests for cervical abnormalities.

Figure 2

Grey line: colposcopy for all women. Thick black line: colposcopy for no women. Thin black line: colposcopy if HPV test positive. Dashed line: colposcopy if repeat cytology positive. A repeat PAP smear is of value if the threshold probability for colposcopy is between 10 – 35%; there is no value to an HPV test.