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New Study Might Reduce Cancer in Developing World

The team expects the model to improve as more information is collected.

“The great thing about the model is that it is iterative,” says Goldie. “We can keep putting information into it to make it better.”

Goldie noted the importance of clinical studies to test the results of the study.

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“Because these strategies appear to offer enormous public health impact for low resource settings, clinical studies evaluating the safety and long-term effectiveness of the new cervical cancer screening approaches must now be given the highest priority,” says the ressearcher.

According to Goldie, much work remains to be done to put the analysis into terms that developing nations can understand and use.

“Our research is an additional piece of information that decision makers can use to make policy decisions and to improve health,” she says.

Ultimately, the team hopes their work will be used to inform policy decisions in developing nations.

Ropeik says that the team is sending executive summaries of the analysis to policy and health organization around the world, and to policy makers in every developing nation.

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