Team of German researchers have shown that women can accurately do their own checks for infection of human papillomavirus (HPV) which is the most common cause of cervical cancer. The results of this study have been published in October in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology.
"High sensitivity of this tool to identify nearly all women who are infected with HPV through self-sampling method," says Yvonne Delere of the Robert Koch Institute of the Ministry of Health, Berlin, as quoted by ScienceDaily, Tuesday (10/25/2011).
This assay is called the Delphi Screener equipment is in the form of sterile syringes containing 5 millimeters buffered saline. One hand will release the saline into the vagina and hold it for 5 seconds and then released so that the tool can take the fluid from the vagina.
Furthermore, fluid or lavage specimens are successful in getting this put into a tube and then labeled and sent to a laboratory for further testing.
Overall, women who participated in this study tells us that self-sampling methods are used fairly easily with the assessment of 12 for the scale of 0 (easy) and 100 (difficult).
The researchers note in the conventional method of cervical sampling brush aimed at the transformation zone in which abnormal cervical cells most often develops, whereas in the self-sampling lavage involves covering the entire cervical area.
The high prevalence of HPV, hr-HPV and HPV16 in cervicovaginal lavage samples probably due to additional infection of extracervical area, because these infections can be a storage place for the virus that will infect the cervical epithelium at the transformation, so that a better sampling lavage.
Researchers hope the new technique in cervical cancer screening program could spread to developing countries, where women often do not have easy access to health care providers.
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