About the Authors

Louiza S. Velentzis

louizav@nswcc.org.au

Affiliation Cancer Research Division, Cancer Council NSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Emily Banks

Affiliation National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Research School of Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Freddy Sitas

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Usha Salagame

Affiliation Cancer Research Division, Cancer Council NSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Eng Hooi Tan

Affiliation Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Karen Canfell

Affiliations Cancer Research Division, Cancer Council NSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Lowy Cancer Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Competing Interests

KC and EB receive salary support from the National Health and Medical Research Council. KC is co-PI of a trial of HPV-based cervical screening in Australia conducted by the Victorian Cytology Service, a government-funded health promotion charity; the VCS has received a funding contribution for the trial from Roche Medical Systems and Ventana Inc., USA. This unrelated work does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. LSV, FS, EHT and US have no competing interests to declare.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KC LSV. Performed the experiments: LSV. Analyzed the data: LSV EHT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: US. Wrote the paper: LSV KC. Critically reviewed the paper: EB FS US EHT.