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The hypothesis was that there would be no difference between vaginal self-sampling and cervical sampling to find high-grade cervical dysplasia or cancer.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>Vaginal HPV self-sampling kits were sent by regular mail to 14 765 randomly selected women aged 30\u201364 years old in the screening programme. HPV-positive women were invited for a follow-up examination by their midwife in which they provided a cervical sample for cytological and HPV co-testing. The control arm consisted of 14 839 women who met the same inclusion criteria and were invited to have cervical sampling by midwives for primary HPV screening. All HPV samples were analysed by the Aptima HPV assay (Hologic Inc.).<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Main results<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>The participation rate was 33.5% in the self-sampling arm and 47.5% in the cervical sampling arm, (<jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic> &lt; 0.0001). HPV was detected in 17.1% (95% confidence interval (CI), 16.1\u201318.23%) in the self-sampling arm and 4.5% (95% CI, 4.0\u20135.0%) in the cervical sampling arm. Histological, severe dysplasia was observed among 0.48% (95% CI, 0.3\u20130.72%) and 0.47% (95% CI, 0.3\u20130.66%) of the self-sampling and the cervical sampling groups, respectively.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>The self-sampling approach detects a similar proportion of severe dysplasia as regular screening. 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