Jc elkas biography
- Objective: using endocervical curettage during colposcopy is currently being questioned; its usefulness as a diagnostic tool in patients.
- Elastic light scattering spectroscopy is being developed as a non-intrusive technique for real-time diagnosis of cervical tissue during colposcopy.
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Efficacy of endocervical curettage in colposcopic assessment of patients having abnormal squamous pap smear
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Published in final edited form as: J Low Genit Tract Dis. 2009 Oct;13(4):216–223. doi: 10.1097/LGT.0b013e318195d91b
Abstract
Objective
To examine the utility of in vivo elastic light scattering measurements to identify cervical intraepithelial neoplasias (CIN) 2/3 and cancers in women undergoing colposcopy and to determine the effects of patient characteristics such as menstrual status on the elastic light scattering spectroscopic measurements.
Materials and Methods
A fiber optic probe was used to measure light transport in the cervical epithelium of patients undergoing colposcopy. Spectroscopic results from 151 patients were compared with histopathology of the measured and biopsied sites. A method of classifying the measured sites into two clinically relevant categories was developed and tested using five-fold cross-validation.
Results
Statistically significant effects by age at diagnosis, menopausal status, timing of the menstrual cycle, and oral contraceptive use were identified, and adjustments based upon these mea
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Modeling human papillomavirus and cervical cancer in the United States for analyses of screening and vaccination
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- Open access
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- Jeremy D Goldhaber-Fiebert1,2,
- Natasha K Stout1,2,
- Jesse Ortendahl1,2,
- Karen M Kuntz3,4,
- Sue J Goldie1,2 &
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- Joshua A Salomon1,5,6
Population Health Metricsvolume 5, Article number: 11 (2007) Cite this article
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Background
To provide quantitative insight into current U.S. policy choices for cervical cancer prevention, we developed a model of human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer, explicitly incorporating uncertainty about the natural history of disease.
Methods
We developed a stochastic microsimulation of cervical cancer that distinguishes different HPV types by their incidence, clearance, persistence, and progression. Input parameter sets were sampled randomly from uniform distributions, and simulations undertaken with each set. Through systematic reviews and formal data synthesis, we established multiple epidemiologic
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