Cancer

Scientist-Physician Calls for National Guideline to Treat Women with Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infection

Published in Cancer Weekly, December 11th, 2007

Connecticut Pathologist and medical scientist Sin Hang Lee, MD, has called for a set of new national guidelines to treat women tested positive for HPV because "too many women are being needlessly subjected to an invasive colposcopy procedure."

A group of National Cancer Institute (NCI) scientists recently agreed that such a set of new guidelines are warranted, in an open forum published in the November issue of American Journal of Clinical Pathology.

Dr. Lee, a Pathologist at Milford (CT) Hospital who recently developed the nation's first accurate HPV genotyping based on DNA-sequencing, said "we need new guidelines for gynecologists to send women at...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2007-12-11)

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