News From The Annals Of Internal Medicine April 1, 2008

1. Perils of Testing: What Happens When Tests for Cervical Cancer are Normal but HPV Testing Is Abnormal?When nearly 10,000 women were screened with Pap tests for cervical cancer and with DNA tests for high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV), 23 percent were found to be infected with high-risk HPV regardless of status on the Pap test (Article, p. 493.