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New data on cervical screening with HPV and Pap tests discussed at conference

Published in Women's Health Weekly, June 9th, 2005

Digene (DIGE) announced that physicians from Kaiser Permanente reported early results from the first 100,000 patients screened with combined cervical cytology and HPV (human papilloma virus) DNA testing in routine clinical practice at Northern California Kaiser Permanente.

The results were discussed in a presentation at the International Papillomavirus Conference in Vancouver, Canada. The physicians reported that only 3.7% of the total number of patients screened were Pap-negative HPV-positive and that effective triage of this group could add an estimated 40% to the total number of cases of high grade cervical disease diagnosed, as these cases of disease would be...

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