ARTICLE Results at Recruitment From a Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Human Papillomavirus Testing Alone With Conventional Cytology as the Primary Cervical Cancer Screening Test

Several studies based on double testing of all study women have shown that, compared with cytology, human papillomavirus (HPV) testing has greater sensitivity but lower specifi city in detect-ing high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) ( 1 – 14). A design based on double testing, although suitable for examinin