Cytological abnormalities rate is high in based-hospital elderly French women.
Benign lesions are more detected at 66–75 years while pre-malignancies over 76.
hrHPV prevalence is high and increases with severity of cytological abnormalities.
HPV 16 is the most prevalent genotype in cervical cancer.
In women with normal smears, incident CIN3 develops in HPV 16 + women.