Ricardo Sánchez

TL;DR: HPV DNA testing is a cost-effective alternative for screening in Colombia and not only high coverage but high follow-up rates are critical for successful screening programs.

TL;DR: The FACT-G scale is an instrument that performs consistently over time, with evidence of responsiveness, and the finding of misfitting items in two subscales imposes caution in interpreting the scores of these domains.

TL;DR: The observed number of women having either a single infection or more than 4 viral types was smaller than expected, while for those infected with 2–4 HPV types it was larger than expected.

TL;DR: It was found that using a single primer set led to underestimating the prevalence for HPV infection and the simultaneous use of these primer sets is an important tool for the detection of HPV DNA, being equally relevant for identifying multiple infections and low viral DNA copies.

TL;DR: An association between HPV DNA load and CIN frequency was seen to be type-specific and may have depended on the duration of infection.