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Persistent infection with human papillomavirus 16 or 18 is strongly linked with high-grade cervical disease
David Radley1, Alfred Saah1, Margaret Stanley2
1a Merck & Co., Inc. , Whitehouse Station , NJ , USA.
Abstract:
We investigated the relationship between high-grade cervical disease (cervical intraepithelial neoplasia [CIN] 2, CIN3 or adenocarcinoma in situ) and persistent infection with HPV16 and/or HPV18 (HPV16/18) among 3970 women who received placebo in 3 clinical trials of a quadrivalent HPV vaccine. Statistical analysis (odds ratios, sensitivity, specificity, negative and positive predictive values, negative and positive likelihood ratios) showed that patients with a persistent infection with HPV16/18 had a much greater risk of HPV16/18-related high-grade cervical disease. Furthermore, subjects without a persistent infection with HPV16/18 were unlikely to have HPV16/18-related high-grade cervical disease. These results suggest that persistent infection with HPV16/18 meets the criteria for a surrogate endpoint for HPV16/18-related high-grade cervical disease and may be used as such in future clinical studies with prophylactic HPV vaccines and in natural history studies.
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