Table 1.

Result of the first (non-recall) cytology test in the last 12 months in women (a) aged ≥70 and (b) whose first cytology test was at age 40–69, with cervical cancer (‘Cancers') and in the general population (‘Cytology tests') and predictive value (PV) of the test result to cervical cancer.

	a) Aged ≥70					b) First cytology aged 40–69
Cytology test result1	Cancers	% cancers diagnosed with test result or worse	Cytology tests	% of all tests	PV	Cancers	% cancers diagnosed with test result or worse	Cytology tests	% of all tests	PV
Negative	4	100	13071	89.1	0.03%	2	100	84,774	90.8	0.00%
Inadequate	2	95	809	5.5	0.25%	6	99	3,381	3.6	0.18%
Borderline	7*	92	350	2.4	2.00%	14*	97	2,554	2.7	0.55%
Mild	0	83	74	0.5	0.00%	6	92	1,275	1.4	0.47%
Moderate	3	83	21	0.1	14.29%	12	89	311	0.3	3.86%
Severe	8	79	47	0.3	17.02%	108	85	705	0.8	15.32%
?Glandular	11	69	184	1.3	5.98%	10	43	128	0.1	7.81%
?Invasive	43	55	112	0.8	38.39%	101	39	194	0.2	52.06%
Total	78		14668		0.53%	259		93322		0.28%
Moderate or worse	65	83	364	2.5	17.86%	231	89	1338	1.4	17.26%

¹First routine cytology test in the last 12 months.

^*5/7 and 9/14 were referred to colposcopy based on a single borderline, suggesting that they may have been labelled “query high grade, equivalent to ASC-H”.