{"id":13656,"date":"2018-12-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/04\/at-home-self-collected-samples-valid-for-detecting-high-risk-hpv\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T16:59:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T16:59:08","slug":"at-home-self-collected-samples-valid-for-detecting-high-risk-hpv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/04\/at-home-self-collected-samples-valid-for-detecting-high-risk-hpv\/","title":{"rendered":"At-Home Self-Collected Samples Valid for Detecting High-Risk HPV"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Participants report no difficulty understanding directions for self-collection, willing to use in future<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY, Dec. 4, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Mail-based, at-home self-collection of cervicovaginal samples is valid for detecting high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) among infrequently screened women, according to a study published online Nov. 5 in <i>Obstetrics &#038; Gynecology<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Andrea C. Des Marais, M.P.H., from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and colleagues recruited low-income, infrequently screened women to participate in an observational study. Participants provided two self-collected cervicovaginal samples (one at home and one in the clinic) and a sample collected by a clinician. Samples were tested for high-risk HPV; cervical samples were also tested by liquid-based cytology.<\/p>\n<p>One hundred ninety-three women had conclusive high-risk HPV results for all three samples and cytology results. The researchers found that high-risk HPV prevalence among self-home samples (12.4 percent) did not differ significantly from the prevalence among clinician samples (11.4 percent; P = 0.79) or self-clinic samples (15.5 percent; P = 0.21). In all sample types, there was an increase in positivity for high-risk samples with increasing grades of cervical abnormality. High-risk HPV was detected by self-home samples in all identified cases of high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia 2 or worse. Most participants reported no difficulty understanding the instructions for self-collection and were willing to use self-collection again (93.6 and 96.3 percent, respectively).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We found in this sample, all of the women who had high-grade lesions had HPV-positive home self-collection results,&#8221; a coauthor said in a statement. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t miss any of those high-grade cases by conducting home self-collection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Equipment was donated by Hologic and Rovers Medical Devices; several authors disclosed financial ties to these and other biopharmaceutical and medical device companies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.lww.com\/greenjournal\/Abstract\/publishahead\/Home_Self_Collection_by_Mail_to_Test_for_Human.97873.aspx\" target=\"_new\">Abstract\/Full Text (subscription or payment may be required)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Participants report no difficulty understanding directions for self-collection, willing to use in future<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-13656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}