Have we resolved how to triage equivocal cervical cytology?
Open Access
- 17 February 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
- Vol. 96 (4) , 250-1
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djh063
Abstract
Virtually all cases of cervical cancer are caused by one of the 15 or more oncogenic types of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. With the development and refinement of assays to detect HPV DNA, the question becomes how best to integrate HPV testing into cervical cancer screening, which for more than half a century has relied almost exclusively on the Papanicolaou cervical cytology test. One approach has been to consider HPV testing as a second triage test for the relatively large number of women with borderline, equivocal cytology findings of atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASCUS).Keywords
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