Critical Values - January 2009 - (Page 24) Volume 2 • Issue 1 • January 2009 y and s of Cytolog edictive Value l Cancer Long Term Pr avirus Testing in Cervica llom y Human Papi Cohort Stud int European Screening: Jo Study questions Gardasil benefits against costs ASCP Resource s Recent publications hav e estimated that there may be a 50% dec rease in the number of Pap tests in a decade due to HPV vaccines, HPV testin g, and altered testing protocols, but this is only a 50% decrease. In the United States alone we perform over 60 million Pap tes ts annually. Even at a 50% reduction, 30 mi llion tests is still a considerable volume. Simply due to the agi ng of our laborator y staff, we will easily lose more than half our cur rent testing capacity unless we maintain the cytotechnologist pool through our establish ed excellent training programs. —Letter, American So ciety for Clinical Pathology, Januar y 21, 2008 www.ascp.org/HomePa geContent/ ePolicyNews/January 212008ePolicyNews. aspx Even if you’ve had HPV vac cine, Pap smears are still nec essary HPV test pro vides accurate front-line scre ening tion safe CDC: Gardasil vaccina aths in spite of de es ancer t vical c r New ce p smear Pa beats t vaccine Praised cancer t by critics bese Benefits and Risks of Cer vical Can cer Screening Methods r: Cance rvical Ce mbers the Nu By 1,892 s 2004: 1 U.S. Case 2004: 3,850 00 ths U.S. Dea Cases 2005: 500,0 0 0 orldwide 05: 260,0 W ol and eaths 20 ase Contr , World dwide D Worl for Dise Institute Centers r Sources: al Cance n, Nation Preventio anization rg Health O HPV V Flag accine s Ne e Mor e Pa d for p Te sts SCP More from A Under : Pap Tests, 2/05. Policy Statement . review in 2009 PapTests.aspx www.ascp.org/pdf/ ac DeMay, p Test, Richard M Textbook: The Pa ess, 2005. CP Pr MD, FASCP. AS cal s It Matter? Clini E-course: “Doe tations” Pap Test Interpre Implications of ASCP GYN Di gital Images. esources Additional R American Socie Honors Nobel Prize overy HPV Disc In No Hurry to Give It a Shot: Many College Students Hesitant About Vacci ne Offering Protection Ag ainst Cervical Cancer gy Future m Foru of Cytopathology ticle. gy.org/website/ar www.cytopatholo asp?id=1604 ty of Cytopatholo 24 2008 Nobel One-half of the Physiology or Prize in zur arded to Harald Medicine was aw ber 6, 2008, for Octo Hausen, MD, on a viruses human papillom his discovery of er. canc causing cervical .org/nobel_prizes/ http://nobelprize tml tes/2008/press.h medicine/laurea sen/index.html /zurhau www.dkfz.de/en Founda © ®The Nobel tion Public Health Recomm endations for Screening and Preven tion www.cdc.gov/std/hp v/ www.cdc.gov/CANCE R/cervical/basic_info/ www.cdc.gov/vaccine s/vpd-vac/hpv/ http://www.ascp.org/HomePageContent/ePolicyNews/January212008ePolicyNews.aspx http://www.ascp.org/pdf/PapTests.aspx thttp://www.cytopathology.org/website/article.asp?id=1604 http://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv http://www.cdc.gov/CANCER/cervical/basic_info/ http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/hpv http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2008/press.html http://www.dkfz.de/en/zurhausen/index.html
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