Surprising news about HPV cancer screening and HPV vaccine

Posted on November 4, 2013 by admin

American and European women have been screened using the Pap test to detect cervical cancer and precancerous cellular changes for decades, with a major decline in mortality from the disease as a result (cervical cancer remains a leading cancer killer in the Third World, however). Over the past few years, as evidence proving the causal link between human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer became clear, researchers looked into studying whether finding HPV infection might be an even more reliable biomarker for incipient cervical disease — including whether the absence of HPV infection could provide assurance of the absence of cervical disease.....To Read More....