HPV study could spur new cervical-cancer screening guidelines

Friday, July 13, 2018 - 13:30 in Health & Medicine

New research on human papillomavirus (HPV) testing drew the same reaction from Drs. Rachel Winer and Constance Mao: It’s about time. The UW Medicine researchers responded to a decade-long study reported July 3 by a Canadian university. It showed that HPV screening is more accurate at detecting cervical pre-cancers than the long-established Pap smear. Both […]

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