Screening for HPV Outperforms Pap Test for Cervical Cancer
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Guglielmo Ronco, MD, of the Center for Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention in Turin, Italy, and colleagues pooled more than 175,000 women, aged 20 to 64, and followed them for a median of 6.5 years. The four trials used were from England (ARTISTIC), Italy (NTCC), the Netherlands (POBASCAM), and Sweden (SWEDESCREEN). A total of 107 patients had invasive cervical cancer using cancer registries and trial reports.
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