ACOG Publications

Abstract

The guidelines effort received support from the National Cancer Institute and ASCCP. Participating organizations supported travel for their participating representatives. All participating consensus organizations, including the primary funders, had equal and balanced roles in the consensus process including data analysis and interpretation, writing of manuscript, and decision to submit for publication. No industry funds were used in the development of these guidelines. The corresponding authors had final responsibility for the submission decision. The National Cancer Institute (including M.S. and N.W.) receives cervical screening results at reduced or no cost from commercial research partners (Qiagen, Roche, BD, MobileODT, Arbor Vita) for independent evaluations of screening methods and strategies. A.-B.M. is an advisory board member of Merck and GSK. R.S.G. is an ASCCP consultant of Inovio Pharmaceuticals DSMB. W.K.H. is connected with Inovio Pharmaceuticals DSMB. P.E.C. has received HPV tests and assays at a reduced or no cost from Roche, Becton Dickinson, Arbor Vita Corporation, and Cepheid for research. M.H.E. has advised companies and participated in educational activities but does not receive any honoraria or payments for these activities, In some cases, his employer, Rutgers, receives payment for his time for these activities from Papivax, Cynvec, Merck, Hologic, and PDS Biotechnologies. He has been the overall PI or local PI for clinical trials from Johnson&Johnson, Pfizer, Iovance, and Inovio. Funding for these activities is for the research related costs of the trials. The other authors have declared they have no conflicts of interest.