A study has found that it is good for women over the age of 65 to get tested for human papillomavirus (HPV) as a catch-up form.
In the case of elderly women, it is contrary to the past practice that there is no practical benefit, and attention is paid to whether there will be any changes to the guidelines in the future.
A study has found that catch-up HPV tests are useful even for women over the age of 65.
On the 9th local time, the international journal PLoS Medicine published the results of a large-scale study on the effectiveness of HPV testing for elderly women (10.1371/journal.pmed.1004253).
Currently, HPV testing is recommended as the primary cervical cancer screening test due to its excellent sensitivity, but in the case of elderly women, it is excluded from guidelines because there is no practical benefit for it.
Although there are many recommendations for young women in each country’s guidelines, it is true that there is no specific specification for elderly women.
In particular, some studies have reported that HPV is not cost-effective in the case of elderly women, and controversy is still ongoing in the medical community.
This is also the reason why a research team led by Professor Mette Tranberg of Landers Medical University in Denmark conducted a large-scale follow-up study on this. The purpose is to find out what kind of benefits HPV testing actually gives to elderly women.
Accordingly, the research team conducted cervical cancer screening on 11,192 women aged 60 years or older and compared them with 33,387 women in the reference group and conducted a follow-up study.
As a result, there was a significant difference in the detection rate of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) grade 2 or higher (CIN2+).
This is because 3.9 cases of CIN2+ were detected per 1,000 women who underwent cervical cancer screening, while only 0.3 cases per 1,000 in the control group.
The results showed that even elderly women benefit from being tested, given that those who develop CIN2+ or higher have a high risk of being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
In particular, the researchers explained that women who have been tested for HPV even once have a significantly higher chance of being tested again, which is a great help for health management.
Prof. Tranberg said, “Just by checking the CIN2+ detection rate, it shows that the catch-up HPV test in older women can clearly detect cancer early and even prevent it.” presents,” he said.
2023-07-10 02:36:18
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