HPV screening might trump Pap tests in detecting cervical cancer, but false positives remain a concern

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - 19:11 in Health & Medicine

The Pap test has been enormously successful at reducing cervical cancer deaths, but it can miss early signs of malignancy, allowing undetected cases to become invasive .

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