Background: ASCUS is a borderline cytopathological diagnostic category that leaves clinicians with a dilemma regarding how to manage the patient. Triaging women with prior ASCUS results with Hr-HPV testing helps to distinguish those with true neoplastic lesions from those with re...
Background: Cervical cancer is the most common malignancy in Zimbabwe. This attributed to poorly executed Pap smear based screening programs. Pap smears have poor sensitivity and high specificity while HR-HPV DNA testing has high sensitivity and poor specificity. With reference...
Background: Almost 50% of all cervical cancer cases are diagnosed in patients who have never been screened for cervical cancer before. There is an established cause - effect relationship between Hr-HPV infection and cervical cancer. Therefore, knowing the prevalence and high risk...