Cervical Cancer
S.A.N.E. Vax, Inc. Urges the NCI and FDA to Establish a Reliable HPV Genotyping Test for Virology-Based Cervical Cancer Prevention in Patient Care
Published in Vaccine Weekly, November 24th, 2010
In a letter addressed to Dr. Harold E. Varmus, director of the NCI, and Dr. Margaret Hamburg, FDA commissioner, Ms. Norma Erickson, president of S.A.N.E. Vax, Inc., requested that these two federal agencies recommend a reliable human papillomavirus (HPV) genotyping test to support the national virology-based cervical cancer prevention program for patient care. Erickson stated: "The NCI knows reliable HPV genotyping is based on using a PCR system with short target sequencing."
In the letter, Erickson pointed out that a senior NCI official had confirmed in a recently published comment, the NCI's agenda is to replace the traditional Papanicolaou (Pap) cytology with a...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2010-11-24)
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