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ReviewJournal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology2016

Triage of HPV positive women in cervical cancer screening.

Nicolas Wentzensen, Mark Schiffman, Timothy Palmer, Marc Arbyn

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Review in Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 186 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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186citing papers in PubMed, 9 pooled it
16.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

186 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 337 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Cervical cancer screening strategies in women 65 years and older in the human papillomavirus era: A systematic review and meta-analysis of human papillomavirus-based testing and self-sampling approaches.International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics · 2026
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  17. How to evaluate and select cervical screening and triage tests in vaccinated populations.Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Monographs · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Nicolas WentzensenDivision of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, USA. Electronic address: wentzenn@mail.nih.gov.
Mark SchiffmanDivision of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, USA.
Timothy PalmerThe University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Marc ArbynBelgian Cancer Centre/Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium.
National Cancer Institute · USInstitut Scientifique de Santé Publique · BEUniversity of Edinburgh · GB

Funding

Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and cervical and anal cancersZIACP010124 · NCI · DIVISION OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY AND GENETICS · PI WENTZENSEN, NICOLAS · 2009 to 2025
$17.3M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA CP010124
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite HPV vaccines, screening will remain central for decades to control cervical cancer. Recently, HPV testing alone or with cytology was introduced as an alternative to cytology screening. However, most HPV infections are harmless and additional tests are required to identify women with progressing infections or precancer. With three options for primary screening, and without clear strategies for triage of screen-positive women, there is great confusion about the best approach. Also, increasing HPV vaccination coverage will lead to lower disease prevalence, and force new screening approaches. Currently recommended triage strategies for primary HPV screening include HPV genotyping for HPV16 and HPV18 and cytology. Other alternatives that are currently evaluated include p16/Ki-67 dual stain cytology, host methylation, and viral methylation testing. Clinical management of women with cervical cancer screening results is moving to use risk thresholds rather than individual test results. Specific risk thresholds have been defined for return to primary screening, repeat testing, referral to colposcopy, and immediate treatment. Choice of test algorithms is based on comparison of absolute risk estimates from triage tests with established clinical thresholds. Importantly, triage tests need to be evaluated together with the primary screening test and the downstream clinical management. An optimal integrated screening and triage strategy should reassure the vast majority of women that they are at very low risk of cervical cancer, send the women at highest risk to colposcopy at the right time, when disease can be colposcopically detected, and minimize the intermediate risk group that requires continued surveillance.

Indexed as

ColposcopyDNA MethylationDNA, ViralEarly Detection of CancerFemaleGenotypeGenotyping TechniquesHuman Papillomavirus DNA TestsHumansMass ScreeningPapillomaviridaePapillomavirus InfectionsRisk FactorsTriageUterine Cervical DysplasiaUterine Cervical NeoplasmsDNA, ViralCervical cancer screeningCytologyHPVMethylationp16/Ki-67Triage

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PMID26643050
PMCPMC4789103
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