The first national HPV conference shows progress in cancer prevention

The Leya Pinder of the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center spoke with the contemporary OB/Gyn to the recent conference of the US National Human Papillomavirus (HPV).

Pinder, MD, a member of the Cancer Center and extraordinary professor at the UC College of Medicine Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Gynecological Oncology, said that the opening event had brought clinicians, specialists for public health, patient lawyers, survivors and industry leaders. The conference formed a platform for the cooperation and exchange of data and clinical advances, she said, and focused strongly on the role of HPV for cancer types such as cervical, oropharyngeal and anal cancer.

The participants expressly discussed the promising development of HPV self-collection tests. Pinder is a local main underlook in the ship study (self-collection for HPV tests to improve the prevention of cervical cancer), in which the samples collected by patients for HPV tests are as precisely and effective as samples collected.

“There is really the opportunity to make just a vaginal smear or a Cervico vaginal swab so that they can be tested at HPV with high risk, which is usually the driver of cervix preparations and cervical cancer,” said Pinder. “What we have tried in recent years must be proven that women can actually carry out HPV tests themselves.”

Read or look at the contemporary OB/Gyn interview.

Read more about the ship attempt.

Selected photo at the top of the HPV test form. Photo/iStock/Sefa Ozel.