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SUBMITTER: Del Mistro A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6099271 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Del Mistro Annarosa A Adcock Rachael R Carozzi Francesca F Gillio-Tos Anna A De Marco Laura L Girlando Salvatore S Rizzolo Raffaella R Frayle Helena H Trevisan Morena M Sani Cristina C Burroni Elena E Giorgi Rossi Paolo P Cuzick Jack J Ronco Guglielmo G
International journal of cancer 20180309 2
Human papilloma virus (HPV) testing is more sensitive but less specific than cytology. We evaluated stand-alone genotyping as a possible triage method. During a multicentre randomised controlled trial comparing HPV testing to conventional cytology, HPV-positive women were referred to colposcopy and followed up if no high-grade lesion was detected. HPV-positive samples were genotyped by GP5+/GP6+ primed polymerase chain reaction followed by reverse line blot. Genotypes were hierarchically ordered ...[more]