Cervical cancer screening: Epidemiology as the necessary but not sufficient basis of public health practice

摘要

This special section of Preventive Medicine is devoted to cervical cancer screening. It covers why and how testing for human papillomavirus (HPV) is replacing cytology (the Papanicolaou or Pap test) as the primary cervical screening test in varied settings around the world. In short, HPV testing is coming and the role of cytology will be reduced; however, this collection of evidence summaries, guidelines, and editorials aims to illustrate the variety of ways the changeover will occur globally.