Cytological examination of swab from the cervical canal is the best example of effective screening examination. If the material is correctly taken and properly evaluated, sensitivity and specificity are significant. It is a relatively cheap and effective examination. In some countries, like Canada or Sweden, it resulted in decrease of mortality for cervical cancer that reaches even 70%. In the United States every year screening in women, who finished 20 years or from the moment of sexual initiation to senile age. However due to financial causes this standard has not been accepted in Europe. Nevertheless even rarer performance of cytodiagnostics in women after 30th year of life causes a significant decrease of mortality from cervical cancer.

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