First European National Consensus Guidelines by Spanish Medical Societies, Recommends HPV DNA Testing for Cervical Cancer Screening
As announced by Digene Corporation (maker of Digene® HPV Test), Four Spanish medical societies have published national consensus cervical cancer prevention guidelines recommending the following:
- HPV DNA testing for routine, primary screening for women above 35
- use of the test for “proof of cure” following treatment
- follow-up evaluation of women with inconclusive Pap results
The said guidelines, also approved by the Spanish Association of Cervical Pathology and Colposcopy, the Spanish Association of Cytology and the Spanish Association of Pathology, concluded that HPV DNA testing will be increasingly important as the new HPV vaccine becomes more widely used, protecting previously unexposed women against two of the cancer-causing types of HPV (representing about 70 percent of cervical cancers).
Read the full report from Digene Corp.
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