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18 December 2024December 2024 Case Study - Acinic Cell Carcinoma with high grade transformation and lung metastasis
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13 December 2024EFCS Newsreel
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11 December 2024BBC News Eight women 'developed cancer after smear test misread'
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05 December 2024December Image of the Month - Contaminant bug
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04 December 2024The launch of the "New look" SCAN magazine
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04 December 2024UK NSC consultation - Self sampling
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29 November 2024November Blog: Exam Success: IBMS Advanced Specialist Diploma (ASD) in Cervical Cytology
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28 November 2024BAC & NEPSEC ROSE COURSE 2025
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25 November 2024November 2024 Case Study - An interesting pancreatic FNA
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15 November 2024BAC Chair Report 2024
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12 November 2024Cervical Cytology Workforce Survey Results 2024
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01 November 2024November Image Of The Month Winner - Boo!
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31 October 2024October Blog: From Portsmouth to the Falklands: The Adventures of a Travelling Biomedical Andrologist
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26 October 2024October Image Of The Month Winner with Colloid Storm!
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20 October 2024October 2024 Case Study - Bronchial cytology showing squamous cell carcinoma with unusual morphology
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20 October 2024Winners of the Mina Desai Awards For Research Excellence & Early Career Investigator Announced
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04 October 2024British Journal of Biomedical Science
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03 October 2024Global Cytology Educational Program
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27 September 2024September blog: An Andrological Update: The ‘small’ world of Andrology
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25 September 2024FAO - Members that currently pay annually
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21 September 2024BAC ASM - Digital Cytology / AI (Diagnostic cytology) - Dr Jan Lukas Robertus
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17 September 2024IBMS and Hologic Release New Report
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14 September 2024September Case Study - Cervical Cytology
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12 September 2024September Image of The Month Winner - WT1 Donkey
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09 September 2024BAC ASM - Thy3a cytology - Dr Sonali Natu
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09 September 2024Dr Louise Smart provides an insight into the latest edition of Cytopathology
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05 September 2024BAC ASM - Digitisation in gynae cytology - Professor John O’Leary
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04 September 2024IBMS and BD Launch New Report
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28 August 2024August blog: 45th European Congress of Cytology, Leipzig, Germany, 23rd - 26th June 2024
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12 August 2024
FAO BAC members that pay monthly by direct debit
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12 August 2024August Image Of The Month Winner - Sarah Ferris Manchester Cytology Centre
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08 August 2024Introduction to the Digital Cervical Cytology Specialist Portfolio 20th August 12-1pm
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31 July 2024The Eve Appeal
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31 July 2024Education material- access it before it's gone - Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust Website
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30 July 2024July Case Study - EUS of station 7… ummm?
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26 July 2024Congratulations - Exam success!
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18 July 2024
Information for current members that pay monthly by direct debit
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17 July 2024The BBC and The Lancet release the latest news on the cervical self sampling programme - YouScreen
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15 July 2024July Image Of The Month Winner - Donna Rainey - Polymorph Pacman
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11 July 2024
BBC article - Some smear test scientists investigated over screening
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01 July 2024June Case Study - Unusual Finding in a Suspected Haematoma of Breast
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28 June 2024June Blog: A review of Rapid On-Site Evaluation (ROSE) Cytology Course at NEPSEC
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26 June 2024Cytology Reporting Conjoint Board Member (College Representative) - Applications open
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19 June 2024
BAC membership payments are changing
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11 June 2024IBMSChat on Rapid On-site Evaluation in Cytopathology
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11 June 2024June Image Of The Month Winner - Linda Wylie University Hospital Monklands - Love heart nucleus
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31 May 2024May Case Study - Metastatic adenocarcinoma in ascitic fluid
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31 May 2024May Blog: Behind the scenes of a UK NEQAS CPT assessment day
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24 May 2024Breaking News - Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust
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16 May 2024Effect of the HPV vaccination programme on incidence of cervical cancer and grade 3 cervical intraepithelial neoplasia by socioeconomic deprivation in England: population based observational study
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16 May 2024Can you help lead the BAC by joining the Executive?
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11 May 2024May Image Of The Month Winner - Dr Richard Bishop - What is that in the cell block?
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09 May 2024BAC Executive member awarded Biomedical Scientist of the Year 2024
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03 May 2024EFCS Scientific Committee Interventional Cytopathology Survey
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02 May 2024Read the BAC article in the EFCS Newsletter!
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01 May 2024April Blog: Reflecting on Healthcare Science Week 2024
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30 April 2024April Case Study - Urethral washings - Small Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma
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16 April 2024
Introduction to the Digital Diagnostic Cytopathology Specialist Portfolio Webinar. 18th April 2024 Opening Times: 11am-12pm
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09 April 2024April Image Of the Month Winner - Dr Ricoa P Lasaca Pathologist - Divine Word Hospital, Tacloban City, Leyte, Philippines - Colloid Turtle
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03 April 2024BAC Webinars - preferred platform survey
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28 March 2024March Case Study - An unusual diagnosis in FNA parotid gland
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24 March 2024The Cytopathology Journal celebrates "Cytology Heroes"
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21 March 2024March Blog: The BAC membership offering – an office perspective
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11 March 2024
The International System (TIS) for Reporting Serous Fluid Cytopathology Second Online Survey
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05 March 2024March Image Of The Month Winner - Kate Matthews - Squamous Duck
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26 February 2024Gynaecological cytology 4th EFCE Joint Webinar
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26 February 2024February Case Study - A potential pitfall in low-grade lymphoma
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23 February 2024BAC Spring Tutorial - Diagnostic cytology delivered by renowned experts - Book your place now! (Discounted rates for BAC members)
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20 February 2024February Blog: The current challenges of training in cervical cytopathology
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15 February 2024Separate pay spine for nursing: call for evidence
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13 February 2024Register for the free BAC March Webinar - Remote ROSE for head and neck FNA: Telecytology utilising a clinical imaging assistant. 27th March 1pm (GMT)
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08 February 2024Cell block practices in European cytopathology laboratories
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07 February 2024February Image Of The Month Winner - Richard Turner - Valentine's Heart
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05 February 2024EUROGIN - International multidiciplinary HPV congress - 13th-16th March Stockholm
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02 February 2024Rapid On-Site Evaluation Training Course - April 2024
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01 February 2024ECC 2024 - Abstract submission
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29 January 2024BAC Case Study and Quiz January 2024 - Cervical Cytology
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28 January 2024BAC Spring Tutorial 6th April 2024 - SAVE THE DATE
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17 January 2024Global View of HPV Elimination Webinar
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15 January 2024January Blog: The Value of External Quality Assurance
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15 January 2024Cytopathology practice and training in the USA
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09 January 2024Digital pathology to improve cancer screening and save lives
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02 January 2024January Image Of The Month Winner - Dawn Bradshaw - Bobble Hat
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29 December 2023December blog: What can digital cytology offer the laboratories and the UK screening programmes?
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22 December 2023The International Academy of Cytology and the International Collaboration of Cancer Reporting are proud to announce the publication of a new Dataset to assist reporting of Tumours of the Lung
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13 December 2023Cervical Screening: Invasive cancer audit 2016-2019
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13 December 2023NHS Digital Cervical Screening (Annual) statistics
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01 December 2023December Image Of The Month Winner
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16 November 2023Further IAC webinars for November and December
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13 November 2023A November BONUS BLOG! 'Melting Points 1 and 2 - Gynaecology' at the European Congress of Cytology (ECC) in Budapest
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07 November 202345th European Congress of Cytology - Cytopathology The clinical interface - Leipzig, 23-26 June 2024
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03 November 2023Consultant Opportunities at Cervical Screening London
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01 November 2023November blog: The XXXI Latin-American Congress of Cytopathology: A Journey of Advancements and Collaboration
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01 November 2023November Image of the Month Winner
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01 November 2023BAC Case Study and Quiz November 2023 - Cervical Cytology
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27 October 2023BAC Webinars
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17 October 2023BAC Case Study and Quiz October 2023
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16 October 2023The BAC at the European Congress of Cytology (ECC) - BAC Companion Meeting
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16 October 2023November Edition of Cytopathology Journal
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13 October 2023October Image Of The Month Winner
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13 October 2023BAC Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) and AGM 2023
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10 October 2023Free learning! ASC Global Cytology Educational Program
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09 October 2023BAC statement - Press release describing a cervical screening incident in Northern Ireland
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02 October 2023Dennis Williams 1942-2023: A Celebration of a Great Man
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22 September 2023
IBMS and RCPath histopathology reporting statement 2023
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22 September 2023Free BAC Webinar announced 26th October 2023 (Cervical Cytology)
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21 September 2023EFCS Newsletter Issue 2-3/2023
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14 September 2023Dennis Williams 1942-2023
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14 September 2023BAC Case Study and Quiz for September - A subcutaneous neck lump in a young man
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04 September 2023Mentorship and sponsorship in cytopathology - EFCS Survey
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03 September 2023BAC Chair Report 2023
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01 September 2023September Image of The Month Winner
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29 August 2023Registration is now open for the brand new 2023/24 Digital Diagnostic Cytopathology Interpretive EQA Scheme
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29 August 2023The WHO Reporting Systems for Liver Cytopathology and for Breast Cytopathology
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23 August 2023BAC Case Study and Quiz for August - Cytology histology correlation confirms an unusual variant of a common malignancy
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17 August 2023The invasive cervical cancer audit lectures and workshop 29th November 2023 - Limited spaces available - Discounted tickets for members. BOOK NOW!
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16 August 2023The role of biomedical scientists within the provision of a diagnostic cytopathology service
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11 August 2023SEPTEMBER 2023 EDITION OF CYTOPATHOLOGY
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09 August 2023Consultation opens on use of digital pathology in breast, bowel and cervical cancer screening histopathology
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03 August 20232023 Survey on the use of Breast FNAB Cytopathology
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01 August 2023August 2023 Blog - Rapid On-site Evaluation: A Radiology Perspective
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01 August 2023August Image of The Month Winner - Can you guess what it is?
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26 July 2023Mina Desai Awards winners announced
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20 July 2023Do you report Liver FNAB?
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17 July 2023BAC Case Study and Quiz for July - An approach to rapid on site evaluation
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17 July 2023July Image of the month winner
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14 July 2023July 2023 blog - Current dilemmas and future solutions in cervical screening
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30 June 2023June 2023 blog - From Histology to ROSE
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23 June 2023British Association for Cytopathology - Cytopathology Journal July Edition
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15 June 2023June 2023 Case study - Urine Cytology and Ethylene Glycol Poisoning
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13 June 2023June Image of the month winner
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23 May 2023May 2023 Case Study - When morphology and immunocytochemistry align
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10 May 2023May Image of the month winner
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10 May 2023Can you help lead the BAC by joining the Executive? Plus the May blog - What it means to be on the exec
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09 May 2023British Association for Cytopathology - Cytopathology Journal May Edition
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18 April 2023EFCS Newsletter
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17 April 2023NHS Scotland calls 13,000 women for smear tests after error
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11 April 2023Interventional Ultrasound for Pathologists
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05 April 2023Could you be a Specialist Advisory Panel member with the IBMS?
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05 April 2023April blog - The role of self-collection in the WHO Elimination Strategy for cervical cancer
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03 April 2023April 2023 Case study - A look beyond the cells during EBUS
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03 April 2023April Image of The Month Winner
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29 March 2023
The invasive cervical cancer audit process - seminar and practical slide workshop 28th June 2023
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27 March 2023British Association for Cytopathology - Cytopathology Journal March Edition
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24 March 2023March case study. Cervical cytology - Small crowded hyperchromatic groups
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07 March 2023March Image of the Month Winner
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02 March 2023Medico-legal review guidance
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24 February 2023February Image of the Month Winner
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23 February 2023
International HPV awareness day
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23 February 2023The BAC's Professor Allan Wilson is awarded Honorary Fellow for the Academy for Healthcare Science
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21 February 2023February Blog: HPValidate self-sampling study. Our experience in Bristol Cervical Screening Lab
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17 February 2023BAC Spring Tutorial 18th March 2023 NOTICE OF CHANGE
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16 February 2023February case study
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01 February 2023January - Image of the month winner
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23 January 2023Cytopathology Journal - Cytology Heroes
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23 January 2023Cervical Cancer Prevention Week
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19 January 2023BAC Spring Tutorial 2023 booking is live
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12 January 2023
EFCS Newsletter Issue 4
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05 January 2023What’s in January’s Cytopathology?
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04 January 2023
Cervical Cancer Awareness Month January 2023
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20 December 2022BAC webinar 3rd March 2023 Embedding Sustainability in Laboratory Practice
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16 December 2022The new IBMS ROSE specialist portfolio is live
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16 December 2022EFCS Joint Webinar in Lung Cytology 17th January 2023
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15 December 2022The World Health Organization Reporting System for Lung Cytopathology
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07 December 2022Cervical Screening Programme, England - 2021-2022 National Statistics
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05 December 2022
Save the Date - BAC Spring Tutorial - Saturday 18th March 2023 - London
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05 December 2022BAC launch new website
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02 December 2022What’s coming in Cytopathology
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28 November 2022
Recommended code of practice for cytology laboratories participating in the UK cervical screening programmes 2022
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25 November 2022Review of the Implementation of Recommendations of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme
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21 November 2022The BAC's Dr Ash Chandra Receives Prestigious International Award
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05 September 2022BAC Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) and AGM 2022
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16 August 2022Pathology Portal launched by the RCPath and HEE
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11 August 2022
Honorary Fellow of the Academy for Healthcare Science
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09 August 2022
Nominations open for 2022 CSO Excellence in Healthcare Science Awards
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29 July 2022
IBMS/RCPath Embedding Wax Supply Guidance
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07 July 2022
Mina Desai Bursary Awards
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06 July 2022
EFCS Newsletter Issue 2 2022
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28 June 2022
Could 10 minutes make a difference?
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24 May 2022
G089 Guidance on the reporting of thyroid cytology specimens
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19 May 2022
Journal of Molecular Pathology free access article
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16 May 2022
May 2022 edition of Cytopathology
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25 April 2022
Use of the Biocartis Idylla™ Platform for the Detection of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor, BRAF and KRAS Proto-Oncogene Mutations in Liquid-Based Cytology Specimens from Patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma and Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma The stud
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15 April 2022BAC membership survey 2022
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29 March 2022
BAC Webinar 29th March 2022 Dr Chiara Herzog - recorded version
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15 March 2022
EFCS Newsletter
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15 March 2022
EFCS Newsletter
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08 March 2022Message to the Ukrainian cytopathologists
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03 February 2022The WID-BC-index identifies women with primary poor prognostic breast cancer based on DNA methylation in cervical samples
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27 January 2022The 2022 Scottish Governments’ Chief Healthcare Science Officer’s awards are now open
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14 January 2022
2nd Winter Course Cytopathology
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07 January 2022Cervical Screening Programme, England - 2020-21
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14 December 2021
European Federation of Cytology Societies (EFCS) Issue 4
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13 December 2021
UK NEQAS Cellular Pathology Technique
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05 December 2021Intraoperative cytology of the female genital tract:
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15 November 2021Cancer Prevention Group blog
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09 November 2021Mina Desai Awards & Bursaries
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04 November 2021
The effects of the national HPV vaccination programme in England, UK, on cervical cancer and grade 3 cervical intraepithelial neoplasia incidence
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20 October 2021
Brighton Award 2021
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11 October 2021
The Role of Cytology in Complex CSF Diagnosis
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01 October 2021
Cervical screening: auditing procedures
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01 October 2021
Cervical screening: auditing procedures
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30 September 2021
Changes ahead for the national screening system
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30 September 2021
Next generation sequencing in cytology
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30 September 2021
Changes ahead for the national screening system
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30 September 2021
Next generation sequencing in cytology
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15 September 2021
Inequalities in Healthcare Alliance - Letter to the Prime Minister
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15 September 2021
Inequalities in Healthcare Alliance - Letter to the Prime Minister
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13 September 2021
BAC ASM 2021 - Speaker Profiles
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12 September 2021
BAC AGM 2021
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06 September 2021
Which young women are not being vaccinated against HPV?
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06 September 2021
Which young women are not being vaccinated against HPV?
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01 September 2021
Genomics in your Practice: a health and social care survey
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31 August 2021
Chair Report 2021 - message from Dr Anthony Maddox
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31 August 2021
Chair Report 2021 - message from Dr Anthony Maddox
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17 August 2021
BAC Executive Ballot 2021
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02 August 2021
Last edition of SCAN in current format
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02 August 2021
Last edition of SCAN in current format
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20 July 2021
Exploring staff turnover, burnout, and resilience in cytology reference laboratories: A workforce qualitative study
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18 July 2021
European Federation of Cytology Societies Newsletter: Issue 3
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06 July 2021
Practical lung cytopathology: Sample management, diagnostic entities, and implementation of ancillary techniques?
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28 June 2021
Clinical Academic Fellowships (NHS Scotland)
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14 June 2021
Health and care organisations say more action is needed on staff health and wellbeing
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10 June 2021
Soft Tissue FNAB Reporting System International Survey
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08 June 2021
BAC Executive Nominations 2021
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28 May 2021
BAC Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) and AGM 2021
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25 May 2021
Thyroid FNA and the Bethesda System: What possibilities are there to perform molecular tests?
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13 May 2021
Cervical screening: education and training
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16 April 2021
Honorary Membership 2021
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06 April 2021
Lymph Node Reporting International Survey
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18 March 2021
IBMS Position Statement: Reporting within Cellular Pathology
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26 February 2021
Diagnostic accuracy of cytology for the detection of endometrial cancer in urine and vaginal samples
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24 February 2021
Smear tests: Women to trial 'do-it-at-home' kits for NHS
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22 February 2021
HPV assays that fulfil requirements for cervical cancer screening
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17 February 2021
Cervical Screening Programme - Coverage Statistics [Management Information]
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01 February 2021
ACCEA round 2021
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27 January 2021
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on functioning of cytopathology laboratory: Experience and perspective from an academic centre in New York
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27 January 2021
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on functioning of cytopathology laboratory: Experience and perspective from an academic centre in New York
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25 January 2021
International Pancreatico-Biliary Reporting Survey
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20 January 2021
Covid smear-test delays prompt calls for home HPV tests
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20 January 2021
Cytopathology journal - back copies
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20 January 2021
Covid smear-test delays prompt calls for home HPV tests
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19 January 2021
Extension of free access to the mental health apps
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19 January 2021
Provisions for Rapid Onsite Evaluation (ROSE) survey
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19 January 2021
Extension of free access to the mental health apps
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19 January 2021
Provisions for Rapid Onsite Evaluation (ROSE) survey
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14 January 2021
European Federation of Cytology Societies (EFCS)
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14 January 2021
Happy New Year from Cytopathology!
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13 January 2021
The benefits of the Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology System for reporting pancreatobiliary cytology
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07 January 2021
Cervical Screening Programme, England - 2019-20
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17 December 2020
Pathology and the Environment
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01 December 2020
Cervical Screening Programme, England - 2019-20 [NS] National statistics
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01 December 2020
SARS-CoV-2 Immune Responses: our current understanding
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01 December 2020
Cervical Screening Programme, England - 2019-20 [NS] National statistics
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30 November 2020
Asian women shun cervical screening over Covid worries, say experts
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19 November 2020
Virtual Open Day in Cytology
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16 November 2020
Stakeholder and public involvement at the UK National Screening Committee
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16 November 2020
Stakeholder and public involvement at the UK National Screening Committee
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10 November 2020
New short links to NHS screening information online
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10 November 2020
New short links to NHS screening information online
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02 November 2020
The Biomedical Scientist Live
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22 October 2020
Public Health England Health Protection Report 20 October 2020
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03 October 2020
HPV vaccine helps prevent invasive cervical cancer, landmark study shows
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03 October 2020
Diagnostics Recovery and Renewal
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02 October 2020
Honorary Memberships AGM 2020
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23 September 2020
IBMS Cytology Specialist Portfolios
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22 September 2020
The Art and Science of Practical Management
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16 September 2020
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cytology practice: An international survey in the Asia-Pacific region
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15 September 2020
Diagnostic Cytopathology cases - recorded webinar
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11 September 2020
Chair Report 2020 - message from Alison Cropper
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07 September 2020
Impact of COVID-19 on cervical screening
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12 August 2020
Survey on Diagnostic Cytology practice in the UK 2020
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29 July 2020
Cytology and the pandemic
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23 July 2020
New Cytopathology Editor in Chief appointed
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10 June 2020
Black Lives Matter - a little-known heroine
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15 May 2020
Collection and Handling of Thoracic Small Biopsy and Cytology Specimens for Ancillary Studies
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30 April 2020
Lung Reporting Cytopathology International Survey
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27 April 2020
Latest SCAN is now on-line
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09 April 2020
Cytologic and histologic samples from patients infected by the novel coronavirus 2019 SARSCoV2
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03 April 2020
American Society of Cytopathology Live Series
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30 March 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic: Implications for the cytology laboratory
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29 March 2020
COVID-19 - recommendations for laboratory work
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23 March 2020
RCPath advice on histopathology frozen sections and cytology FNA during infectious disease outbreaks
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12 February 2020
Cervical screening: programme and colposcopy management
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30 January 2020
BAC Statement
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14 January 2020
First cervical screening annual standards report published
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07 January 2020
Categorisation of diagnostic errors in pathology and cytology
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06 January 2020
Calling all cytology screeners: the breast screening programme needs you
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02 January 2020
RCPath Training Guidance for trainees in Stage A and B in Cervical Cytology