Cervical screening by Pap smear involves a high rate of false negatives, necessitating
frequent testing. Because women do not like the sampling procedure, many avoid being …

Background In the last decade, human papillomavirus (HPV) testing has been evaluated
extensively for cervical screening, with studies finding increased sensitivity compared to …

The aim of this study was to compare the acceptability of self-collected vs clinician-collected
human papillomavirus (HPV) tests. Utilising a cross-sectional approach, 250 non-pregnant …

It has recently been shown that, when appropriate instructions are given, self-sampling of
specimens leads to similar results in the subsequent molecular HPV detection, compared …

Summary Purpose: To compare Hybrid Capture II (HC2) in detecting high-risk (HR) HPV in
patient-collected vaginal samples with those obtained using gynaecologist collected …

High‐risk human papillomavirus (hr‐HPV) detection will become an important tool in the
screening for cervical cancer. Self‐sampling is an inexpensive and well‐accepted method …

The introduction of cervical cancer screening and timely intervention is associated with the
recent decrease in cervical cancer incidence. 1 There are several options to screen cervical …

In most industrialized countries, screening programs for cervical cancer have shifted from
cytology (Pap smear or ThinPrep) alone on clinician-obtained samples to the addition of …

Self-collection of cervical samples for human papillomavirus (HPV) testing can help to raise
the participation rate in cervical cancer screening among non-responders. This study was …

Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) have demonstrated that HPV-based cervical cancer
screening offers higher protection against cervical precancer and cancer compared to …