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Kaiser Permanente Reports New Data on Combined Screening With the Digene HPV Test and Pap at International Papillomavirus Conference.

Publication: PR Newswire
Publication Date: 04-MAY-05 		Format: Online - approximately 958 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
- In a Study of 123,909 Patients, Physicians Conclude, 'Concerns That a Large Percentage of Women Would Be Pap-Negative/HPV-Positive Did Not Materialize.' -

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Digene announced today that physicians from Kaiser Permanente reported early results from the first hundred thousand patients screened with combined cervical cytology and HPV DNA testing in routine clinical practice at Northern California Kaiser Permanente in a presentation at the International Papillomavirus Conference in Vancouver, Canada. The physicians reported that only 3.7 percent of the total screened were Pap negative HPV positive and that effective triage of this group could add an estimated 40 percent to the total number of cases of high grade cervical disease diagnosed, as these cases of disease would be missed in screening programs using only the Pap test.

Kaiser conducts all of its HPV testing with the...

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