About the Authors

Anne Dorte Lerche Helgestad

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

annesper@rm.dk

Affiliations University Research Clinic for Cancer Screening, Department of Public Health Programmes, Randers Regional Hospital, Randers, Denmark, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Mette Bach Larsen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University Research Clinic for Cancer Screening, Department of Public Health Programmes, Randers Regional Hospital, Randers, Denmark, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Research Unit, Horsens Regional Hospital, Horsens, Denmark

Sisse Njor

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Department of Data, Innovation and Research, Lillebaelt Hospital, Vejle; University Hospital of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Mette Tranberg

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University Research Clinic for Cancer Screening, Department of Public Health Programmes, Randers Regional Hospital, Randers, Denmark, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Department of Pathology, Randers Regional Hospital, Randers, Denmark

Lone Kjeld Petersen

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University Research Clinic for Cancer Screening, Department of Public Health Programmes, Randers Regional Hospital, Randers, Denmark, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Berit Andersen

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University Research Clinic for Cancer Screening, Department of Public Health Programmes, Randers Regional Hospital, Randers, Denmark, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Competing Interests

Roche Diagnostics sponsored the Cobas 4800 HPV DNA tests in this study. According to the contract between Roche Diagnostics and the University Research Clinic for Cancer Screening, Randers Regional Hospital, Denmark, Roche Diagnostics had no influence on the scientific process and no editorial rights pertaining to this manuscript. MT, LKP and BA have participated in other studies with human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA tests sponsored by Roche Diagnostics. MT has received honoraria from Roche Diagnostics for lectures on HPV self-sampling.