HPV Detection

Human papilloma viruses (HPVs) have been acknowledged to be the leading risk factor of cervical intra-epithelial lesion creation (CIN) and cervical cancer development (CxCa), while recently, a vaccine protecting from the most commonly HPV types found in CxCa has been produced and introduced in vaccination schemes across the globe. Many different techniques have been created and utilized in HPV detection and monitoring with a vast amount of them being commercialized and few of them integrated in screening strategies. However, there has been no effort in combining data from all the different techniques and provide efficient patient triaging schemes, since, apart from the obvious increase of patient cost, the amount of data and its interpretation in patient management has been impossible.