Cervical Cancer

Screening guidelines support HPV testing

Published in Women's Health Weekly, January 2nd, 2003

Digene Corporation (DIGE) announced that the American Cancer Society (ACS) has issued new cervical cancer screening guidelines including a preliminary recommendation that human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA testing for high-risk HPV types, together with a Pap test, be used in primary screening for women age 30 and over as frequently as every 3 years.

The ACS guidelines are published in the November/December 2002 issue of CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians and are the first revision to guidelines published in 1987. The guidelines are the first by a major medical group in the United States to advocate testing for HPV, the primary causal factor in the development of...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2003-01-02)

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