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Article: American Cancer Society Publishes Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines Supporting HPV Testing.
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- November 15, 2002
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- Preliminary Recommendations for HPV Testing Plus Pap in Routine Screening for Women Age 30 and Over -
Digene Corporation announced today that the American Cancer Society (ACS) has issued new cervical cancer screening guidelines including a preliminary recommendation that human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA testing for high-risk HPV types, together with a Pap test, be used in primary screening for women age 30 and over as frequently as every three years. The ACS guidelines are published in the November/December 2002 issue of 'CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians' and are the first revision to guidelines published in 1987. The guidelines are the first by a major ...