- Every year, over 604,000 women worldwide are diagnosed with cervical cancer and approximately 342,000 die from this preventable disease, caused by Infection with high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV).
- As recently published in the International Journal of Cancer, the IMPACT (IMproving Primary screening And Colposcopy Triage) trial demonstrated that Roche's CINtec PLUS Cytology, when used as a triage test for high-risk HPV, showed a significantly higher sensitivity in detecting cervical pre-cancers in HPV-positive women compared to Pap cytology.
- It is the first FDA-approved dual-stain biomarker technology available for clinicians to guide decision-making based on individual patient risk, with the goal of helping to eliminate cervical cancer.