Increased Screening of All Types, Vaccination Needed to Prevent Cervical Cancer

​Focusing on increasing cervical cancer screening rates and human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination coverage may be more important to preventing cervical cancer than the choice of screening method used, state two physician authors of a perspective piece published June 10, 2014, in the Annals of Internal Medicine. They say that studies have found that all of the available screening methods perform similarly, including a new DNA-based test recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.