DNA test is an effective cervical cancer screening tool for women in low-income countries

(Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center) Dartmouth researchers have introduced an inexpensive DNA-based test for human papillomavirus (HPV), the cause of cervical cancer, in Honduras. The test aid can effectively be used to screen women who have never been screened for this deadly disease. Results of the initiative revealed not only high positivity rates of HPV but unexpected differences in the types of HPV compared to those found in the US.

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