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How patients benefit when you add an HPV test to screening for cervical Ca

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FIGURE 2 Two-quadrant CIN 2,3

High-grade lesions begin as a monoclonal cell change that enlarges centrifugally. Hence, increasing size is suspect for increasing duration of presence and increasing risk for cancer, because risk of invasion is proportional to lesion size.

There’s more to be said about HPV and Pap testing!

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