Review Article

Perspectives in HPV Secondary Screening and Personalized Therapy Basing on Our Understanding of HPV-Related Carcinogenesis Pathways

Table 1

Natural history of abnormal Pap smear evolution.

CINRegressionPersistence of lesionProgression

LSIL (CIN1)60%30%10% (to HSIL)
HSIL (CIN2, CIN3)30%60%10% (to invasive cancer)

Abbreviations: CIN: cervical intraepithelial lesions; LSIL: low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions; HSIL: high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions.