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Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access published online on February 26, 2008
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute, doi:10.1093/jnci/djn038
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Screening for Cervical Cancer in the Era of the HPV Vaccine—The Urgent Need for Both New Screening Guidelines and New Biomarkers

Nancy B. Kiviat, Stephen E. Hawes, Qinghua Feng

Affiliation of authors: Departments of Pathology (NBK, QF) and Epidemiology (SEH), University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Correspondence to: Nancy B. Kiviat, MD, Harborview Medical Center, 325 9th Ave, Rm 2E-H87, Seattle, WA 98104 (e-mail: nbk@u.washington.edu).

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Over the past 25 years, not only have "high-risk" human papillomaviruses (HPVs) been identified as the causal agents of cervical cancer, but also accurate clinical assays have been developed for their detection. Most important, prophylactic vaccines to prevent infection with those high-risk HPVs most commonly found in cervical cancers have recently become available. Unfortunately, however, cervical cancer screening will need to continue for the foreseeable future because prophylactic vaccines cover only a subset of those HPV types that cause . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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