Cervical cancer is a major health concern in Indian women. Though it can be prevented and detected at early stage, screening for cervical cancer has not reached the target population as desired. The logistical issues in screening is a major draw back in screening programmes. The standard binocular colposcopes available at present are costly and due to their size need a place of examination separately. Carrying a colposcope to cervical cancer screening camps creates logistic problems not only due to size and need for separate examination room but also power supply.

The Gynocular® (Gynius AB, Stockholm, Sweden) is a pocket-size hand held monocular colposcope with 5x to 12x magnification, LED illumination, green filter, rechargeable battery and can be mounted on a camera tripod. Optics, resolution and illumination are comparable with a standard colposcope. It is approved as an investigational product by the Swedish National Drug Authority as a noninvasive medical diagnostic class I tool.

            The POCkeT transvaginal colposcope  is a colposcope which has been developed at Duke University. It consists of a consumer grade digital camera found in the commonly used iPhone (Apple iPhone 4) and consumer grade light emitting diodes (LEDs) used in standard colposcopes, (LeisegangOptik 2), which all fit into the form factor of a tampon, a common feminine hygiene product. It comes with its own light source.

           The goal of the present study is to conduct a side-by-side comparison of the performance of transvaginal colposcope to Gynocular® colposcope in detecting cervical intraepithelial.