New technologies and procedures for cervical cancer screening

The clearly higher sensitivity and reproducibility of human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA testing for highgrade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) has led to widespread calls to introduce it as the primary screening test. The main concern has been its lower specificity, due to the fact that it canno...

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Hauptverfasser: Cuzick, Jack (VerfasserIn) , Knebel Doeberitz, Magnus von (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2 May 2012
In: Vaccine
Year: 2012, Jahrgang: 30, Pages: F107-F116
ISSN:1873-2518
DOI:10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.05.088
Online-Zugang:Verlag, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.05.088
Verlag, Volltext: http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0264410X12008869
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Verfasserangaben:Jack Cuzick, Christine Bergeron, Magnus von Knebel Doeberitz, Patti Gravitt, Jose Jeronimo, Attila T. Lorincz, Chris J.L.M. Meijer, Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan, Peter J.F. Snijders, Anne Szarewski
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Zusammenfassung:The clearly higher sensitivity and reproducibility of human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA testing for highgrade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) has led to widespread calls to introduce it as the primary screening test. The main concern has been its lower specificity, due to the fact that it cannot separate transient from persistent infections, and only the latter are associated with an increased risk of high-grade CIN and cancer. Thus, even proponents of HPV testing generally only recommend it for women over the age of 30 years (or in some cases 35 years). If HPV testing is to reach its full potential, new approaches with better specificity are needed, either as triage tests for HPV positive women or, if the high sensitivity of HPV DNA testing can be maintained, as alternate primary screening modalities. Approaches that may useful in this regard, especially as triage tests, include HPV typing, methylation (and consequent silencing) of host and viral genes, and new cytologic methods, such as p16INK4a staining, which attempt to identify proliferating cells. At an earlier stage of development are direct methods based on detection of HPV E6 or E7 proteins. Recent progress and current status of these methods is discussed in this chapter. The current status of visual inspection (VIA and VILI) methods is also surveyed and progress on self-sampling is reviewed.
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ISSN:1873-2518
DOI:10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.05.088