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COPYRIGHT 2005 International Medical News Group
VANCOUVER, B.C. -- A large survey of U.S. clinicians in nine specialties identified clinically important gaps in their knowledge of human papillomavirus and found that many don't test for HPV in the recommended ways.
Several analyses of the survey results by investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were reported in separate poster presentations at the 22nd International Papillomavirus Conference.
Only 35% of 4,305 clinicians surveyed were aware that recent scientific evidence shows that most HPV infections clear without medical intervention, reported Crystal M. Freeman, Ph.D., of the Battelle Centers for Public Health Research...
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