Update as of 01 August 2005
Site Updates
- New case of the month for August by Sarla Naran (WPH)
- New conference index (see sidebar)
- News feeds from the BBC, New Scientist and more!! (see sidebar)
Update as of 27 July 2005
AGM Nominations
Forms are available online (as PDF files) to noinate and vote for your choice of candidate for the various postions at the AGM. These must be received by the secretary no later than Friday 12th August 2005. They should be posted to:
-
Sharon Waldvogel-Thurlow
Cytology Dept
Diagnostic Medlab
[Click here for nomination form]
[Click here for voting form]
- CJW
Update as of 08 July 2005
Case of the Month
This month we have a case kindly submitted ny Nirup Kumar of DML. The answer will be published next month when we will also have an interesting case from the team at Wellington Public Hospital. Fell free to keep submitting cases!
Update as of 10 June 2005
Subscription Time...
Invoices have been sent out to all current members for this year's fees. Please return them as soon as possible to Sharon Waldvogel-Thurlow.
Update as of 08 April 2005
Cervical cancer jab in two years?
BBC reports that:
"A vaccine against cervical cancer could be available within two years.
Trials of Gardasil, produced by pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co Inc, on 277 women have produced very promising results.
The journal Lancet Oncology reports it cut infection rates for the human papillomavirus by 90%."
[Click here for full story from BBC news]
- CJW
Update as of 17 March 2005
External Competency Assurance News
Paul Spek, the Scientist representative on the NCSP External Competency Assurance working group has provided a short report of a meeting he attended in that capacity in Brisbane.
[See Paul's report here]
- CJW
Update as of 02 March 2005
Management Guideline Review Announced
Hazel Lewis (Clinical Leader NCSP) has announced a review of the 1999 Guideline for the Management of Women with Abnormal Cervical Smears. An email widely circulated to laboratories today [Reproduced here by kind permission of Dr Lewis] outlined the composition and terms of reference of the group and how the sector can participate in the process. - CJW
Update as of 22 February 2005
AGM Minutes Online
Draft minutes of NZSC's 2004 AGM are now available on this site.
[Click here for AGM minutes]
Update as of 11 February 2005
New IARC Website launched
The International Agency for Research on Cancer Screening Group Internet Website is online since Wednesday 12 January 2005.
As well as information about the group projects, protocols, etc., you can gain online access to a variety of publications, e.g.,
- Colposcopy and Treatment of Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia, A Beginners' Manual
- A Practical Manual of Visual Screening for Cervical Neoplasia
- Histopathology and Cytopathology of the uterine cervix (digital atlas)
- Planning and Implementing Cervical Cancer Prevention and Control Programs, etc.
"Please feel free to visit us on http://screening.iarc.fr" says Eric Lucas of the IARC, who kindly provided the above information.
The IARC is part of the World Health Organization.
Update as of 18 December 2004
See You in Christchurch
For next year only, we will be holding our annual conference in tandem with the New Zealand Institute of Medical laboratory Science. The meeting is scheduled for 14- 18 August 2005 in the Christchurch Convention Centre. Details will be posted here and on the NZIMLS website as they become available. For more information contact Fran van Til at the NZIMLS (Email: fran@nzimls.org.nz).
Update as of 25 November 2004
HPV Conference details
We have been asked to make you aware of the 22nd International Papillomavirus Conference and Clinical Workshop to be held April 29 - May 6, 2005 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
[Read More here]
Update as of 24 November 2004
Open vaults
The website has had a wee bit of a spring clean. But don't worry! If you have missed anything that was here you can probably still find it in the WebVaults... or use the search box above
31st European Congress of Cytology
We have received an announcement about this meeting to be held in Paris in October 2005. Click here for more details.
Screening Questions?
If you are a woman seeking information about what your cervical smear result means or the breast and cervical screening programmes in general then you might find the official NZ Ministry of Health Screening Programmes' website very useful.