A clinical trial conducted in B.C. and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) randomly divided about 19,000 women into two groups. The control group had the traditional Pap test for their initial screening, while the test group had primary HPV screening — a test that looked for more than a dozen specific types of HPV most likely to cause precancerous lesions in the cervix. The HPV test found almost 60 per cent more precancers — or abnormal cells that could potentially become cancerous — during the initial screening than the Pap test, said study co-author Dr. Dirk van Niekerk, a pathologist who is also the medical leader of the cervical cancer screening program at the B.C. Cancer Agency.While the dream is to find the means to screen for cervical cancer in woman and because I'm getting to the age where I should start thinking about getting checked, prostate cancer in men, without an invasive procedure, a 60% increase in the effectiveness of screening, for anyone, is a huge medical win. Image via Maxpixel
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