False positive cervical HPV screening test results

HIV false positive results and Flu vaccination

Abstract False positive results are the major problem influencing interpretation of Clinical Laboratory test. They are originated mostly in the other diseases, technical errors and the recent vaccination. The problem has been presented since 1991 is positive HIV test after influenza Vaccination (1). The False positive has been reported in Cases using Eliza, one of The most common test to screen...

Histologic Outcomes in HPV-Positive and Cervical Cytology- Negative Women - Screening Results in Northern Thailand.

The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of significant lesions defined as high grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSIL), adenocarcinoma in situ (AIS) and invasive carcinoma in women who had HPV-positive and cytology negative co-testing screening results. This retrospective study was conducted in Chiang Mai University Hospital between May, 2013 and August, 2014. Hybrid c...

Screening for HPV Outperforms Pap Test for Cervical Cancer

Guglielmo Ronco, MD, of the Center for Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention in Turin, Italy, and colleagues pooled more than 175,000 women, aged 20 to 64, and followed them for a median of 6.5 years. The four trials used were from England (ARTISTIC), Italy (NTCC), the Netherlands (POBASCAM), and Sweden (SWEDESCREEN). A total of 107 patients had invasive cervical cancer using cancer registries and...

Risk of breast cancer after false-positive test results in screening mammography.

BACKGROUND Screening for disease in healthy people inevitably leads to some false-positive tests in disease-free individuals. Normally, women with false-positive screening tests for breast cancer are referred back to routine screening. However, the long-term outcome for women with false-positive tests is unknown. METHODS We used data from a long-standing population-based screening mammography...

Ethambutol and a false-positive screening test for phaeochromocytoma.