HPV screening ‘picking up cancers Pap smears would miss’
A review of data from the renewed cervical screening program's first two years shows it's working, researchers say
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Nearly one in six cervical cancers detected in the first two years of the HPV national screening program would not have been picked up by cytology, a study shows.
The finding underlines the successful switch from Pap smears to HPV DNA as a primary test, the researchers say.