HUNDREDS of cervical cancer cases are going undetected in Scotland each year due to missed routine screenings, The Ferret can reveal.
Our analysis of data from Public Health Scotland found there were 440,000 eligible people in 2020/21 who had not had a cervical screening, also known as a smear test, in the last three to five years.
The Ferret compared these figures to incidence rates which show how many screenings are likely to result in a positive test.
