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Background Human papilloma virus (HPV) prevalence studies performed in different regions and population groups across Canada would inform public health decisions regarding implementation of anti-HPV vaccines. Methods A total of 8,700 liquid-based specimens from 8,660 women aged 13-86 from throughout British Columbia were collected. DNA was isolated from 4,980 of these samples and assessed for HPV prevalence and type distribution. HPV was detected by PCR analysis using tagged GP5?/6? consensus primers to amplify the L1 region of HPV; typing was done by bi-directional sequencing of PCR products. Results Overall HPV prevalence was 16.8% (age adjusted 15.5%). Prevalence of high-risk HPV was 13.9, and 10.7% of samples contained HPV16. HPV prevalence was highest in the youngest group of women (\20 years). Onethird of HPV positive samples contained more than one HPV type. Percentages of low-grade (LGIL) and highgrade intraepithelial lesions (HGIL) containing high-risk HPV are 52.3 and 79.4%, respectively. Conclusions Overall HPV prevalence in this study is within the range of estimates from other studies. The prevalence of HPV16 is higher than what is found in other Canadian and international studies. HPV16 and HPV18 compose a majority of the high-risk virus in this study. Use of current HPV vaccines could considerably reduce HPVrelated conditions including cervical cancer and procedures such as colposcopy.

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Background: Background: As part of a project to evaluate emerging optical technologies for cervical neoplasia, our group is performing quantitative histopathological analyses of biopsy specimens from 1,190 patients. Objectives in the interim analysis are (a) quantitatively assessing progression of the neoplastic process of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN)/squamous intraepithelial lesions (SIL), (b) detecting malignancy-associated changes (MACs), and (c) phenotypically measuring human papillomavirus (HPV) detected by DNA testing. Methods: The diagnostic region of interest (ROI) from immediately adjacent sections were imaged, and the basal lamina and surface of the superficial layer were delimited. Nonoverlapping quantitatively stained nuclei were selected from 1,190 samples with histopathological characteristics of normal (929), koilocytosis (130), CIN 1 (40), CIN 2 (23), and CIN 3/carcinoma in situ (CIS) (68). A fully automatic procedure located and recorded the center of every nucleus in the region of interest (ROI). We used linear discriminant analysis to assess the changes between normal and CIN 3/CIS.