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Should Post-Menopausal Women be Screened only with HPV Test in Cervical Cancers?

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Sema Zergeroglu*, Tayfun Gungor and Hakan Yalcin

Aim: Target in cervical cancer screenings is to use easy applying, cheap and diagnostic-assisted screening tests together. The most important thing is to do HPV-DNA analysis with Pap smear. The aim in this study is to perform a detailed follow-up program according to the results of patients who had been diagnosed with cervical intraepithelial lesion (SIL) who applied to the hospital for 2 years and to find out whether being used HPV-DNA results affected the SIL lesions without applying a smear test (pap test) in the menopausal patients with negative HPV-DNA analysis by performing only HPVDNA analysis.

Materials and Methods: A smear test was requested for 11,850 patients aged 50 ± 3.2 in the Zekai Tahir Burak Women’s Health Training ... view more»

DOI: 10.4172/2324-9110.1000212

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