Organization	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2016
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]
Organization	MEDITE Cancer Diagnostics, Inc. (“MDIT”, “MEDITE”, “we”, “us” or the “Company”) was incorporated in Delaware in December 1998. These statements include the accounts of MEDITE Cancer Diagnostics, Inc. (former CytoCore, Inc.) and its wholly owned subsidiaries, which consists of MEDITE Enterprise, Inc., MEDITE GmbH, Burgdorf, Germany, MEDITE GmbH, Salzburg, Austria, MEDITE Lab Solutions Inc. (formerly MEDITE Inc.), Orlando, USA, MEDITE sp. z o.o., Zilona-Gora, Poland and CytoGlobe, GmbH, Burgdorf, Germany. MEDITE is a medical technology company specialized in the development, manufacturing, and marketing of molecular biomarkers, premium medical devices and consumables for detection, risk assessment and diagnosis of cancerous and precancerous conditions and related diseases. The Company has 78 employees in three countries, a distribution network to about 70 countries and a wide range of products for anatomic pathology, histology and cytology laboratories is available for sale.

The entire disclosure for the organization, consolidation and basis of presentation of financial statements disclosure, and significant accounting policies of the reporting entity. May be provided in more than one note to the financial statements, as long as users are provided with an understanding of (1) the significant judgments and assumptions made by an enterprise in determining whether it must consolidate a VIE and/or disclose information about its involvement with a VIE, (2) the nature of restrictions on a consolidated VIE's assets reported by an enterprise in its statement of financial position, including the carrying amounts of such assets, (3) the nature of, and changes in, the risks associated with an enterprise's involvement with the VIE, and (4) how an enterprise's involvement with the VIE affects the enterprise's financial position, financial performance, and cash flows. Describes procedure if disclosures are provided in more than one note to the financial statements.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 275
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=64851502&loc=d3e6003-108592

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