By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent * Merck to donate 2 million doses of Gardasil HPV vaccine * Qiagen to give 250,000 tests for women aged 35-45 * Rwanda to pay “dramatically” cut price after first 3 years LONDON, April 25 (Reuters) – U.S. drugmaker Merck and German diagnostics firm Qiagen are donating millions […]
Self-sampler HPV testing improves compliance in cervical cancer screening
By Janet Fricker, ecancer news Direct mailing of self sampler human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA tests to non responders who had failed to take up invitations for cervical cancer screening programmes increased compliance in comparison with standard recall letters, reports an Italian study published in the British Journal of Cancer. In most industrialised countries, the majority […]
