A report on the current status of European research on the use of human papillomavirus testing for primary cervical cancer screening

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 791-796

  Davies, Philip ^a   Arbyn, Marc ^b   Dillner, Joakim ^c   Kitchener, Henry C ^d   Meijer, Chris J L M ^e   Ronco, Guglielmo ^f   Hakama, Matti ^g  

^a European Cervical Cancer Association   (France)

^b SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Belgium)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f Centro per l'Epidemiologia e la Prevenzione dei Tumori (CPO)   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Human papillomavirus; Randomized controlled trial; Review; Screening

Indexed keywords

CANCER GRADING; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EUROPE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCREENING TEST; SHORT SURVEY; TECHNOLOGY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VIRUS DETECTION; WART VIRUS;

DNA, VIRAL; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 31544466266     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.21611     Document Type: Short Survey

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