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Cancer
Studies conducted at Malmo University on cancer recently published
March 12th, 2009
According to recent research published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, "Primary cervical screening with both human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA testing and cytological examination of cervical cells with a Pap test (cytology) has been evaluated in randomized clinical trials. Because the vast majority of women with positive cytology are also HPV DNA positive, screening strategies that use HPV DNA testing as the primary screening test may be more effective." "We used the database from the intervention arm (n = 6257 women) of a population-based randomized trial of double screening with cytology and HPV DNA testing to evaluate the efficacy of 11 possible...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-03-12)
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