A revolutionary new device is set to dramatically increase the early detection of cervical cancer

The DySIS (Dynamic Spectral Imaging System) digital colposcope measures and maps cervical pre-cancers, eliminating the subjectivity of conventional colposcopy and significantly increasing the detection rate for cervical lesions.

Cervical cancer kills more than 288,000 women each year worldwide1 and affects almost double. According to the World Health Organization, ‘cervical cancer can be readily prevented, even in women at high risk for the disease, through screening and treatment using relatively simple technologies. When precancerous changes in cervical tissue are found and the abnormal tissue successfully treated, a woman will not develop cancer'.

However clinical evidence in the EU shows that with conventional colposcopy as much as 51 per cent of patients with high grade cervical cancer can be missed. With DySIS this figure was reduced to just 21 per cent2. Other clinical tests have shown DySIS to be 88 per cent sensitive compared to 55 per cent for conventional colposcopy3.

The new DySIS digital colposcope is, quite literally, a life saver. It provides clinicians with much more accurate information from which to make a diagnosis than conventional colposcopy. The results are better care for patients with reduced medical risks caused by inaccurate or uncertain diagnosis. Clinicians develop greater expertise in diagnosis too. Having used DySIS Professor Vesna Kesic, Belgrade, Serbia & President Elect of the European Society of Gynaecological Oncology says: : "DySIS showed to be very useful in discriminating between high-grade neoplasia and low-grade non-neoplastic changes on the cervix. Help in predicting the severity of the lesion and guiding to biopsy will be appreciated even by experienced colposcopists. In my opinion, the main practical value of DySIS will be in improving the specificity of colposcopy by quantative assessment and mapping of atypical findings on the cervix, thus decreasing false positive findings and unnecessary treatment".