Cervical cancer screening using a sampling device: efficiency and acceptability

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https://dx.doi.org/10.18565/aig.2020.2.50-61

Bashirova L.K., Apolikhina I.A., Pavlovich S.V.
1) I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Ministry of Health of Russia, Moscow, Russia; 2) Academician V.I. Kulakov National Medical Research Center of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Perinatology, Ministry of Health of Russia, Moscow, Russia

To analyze the data available in the literature on the efficiency of using a self-sampling technique as part of cervical cancer (CC) screening. It is noted that an increase the number of women to be examined and optimization of techniques for high-risk human papillomavirus (hr-HPV) typing are currently considered as main areas for improvement of CC screening programs. Self-sampling shows a high concordance with physician-taken sampling for HPV detection. The possibilities of delivering self-sampling devices directly to women’s homes as part of CC screening programs are considered.There is an urgent need for new approaches to screening with self-sampling devices that are economically affordable, can be easily mailed to the women to be examined, acceptable and convenient to use, technically reliable and compatible with the techniques used to detect hr-HPV.

cervical cancer

human papillomavirus

cervical intraepithelial neoplasia

screening

cervicovaginal self-sampling

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Received 27.11.2019

Accepted 29.11.2019

Lala K. Bashirova, postgraduate at the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, Perinatology and Reproductology of the First Moscow State Medical University named
after I.М. Sechenov of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University), e-mail: leyla9296@hotmail.com
Inna A. Apolikhina, Doctor of Medicine, Head of the Department of Aesthetic Gynecology and Rehabilitation of the National Medical Research Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology named after the Academician V.I.Kulakov, Professor of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology, First Moscow State Medical University named after I.M. Sechenov of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University), e-mail: i_apolikhina@oparina4.ru
Stanislav V. Pavlovich, MD, scientific secretary in Federal State Budget Institution “National Medical Research Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology named
after Academician V.I. Kulakov” Ministry of Health of Russia; Professor of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology, First Moscow State Medical University named after I.M. Sechenov of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University), E-mail: st.pavlovich@mail.ru

For citation: Bashirova L.K., Apolikhina I.A., Pavlovich S.V.
Cervical cancer screening using a sampling device: efficiency and acceptability.
Akusherstvo i Ginekologiya/ Obstetrics and gynecology. 2020;2: 50-61 (In Russian).
https://dx.doi.org/10.18565/aig.2020.2.50-61

Cervical cancer screening using a sampling device: efficiency and acceptability

Bashirova L.K., Apolikhina I.A., Pavlovich S.V.

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