• Only 77.3% of women in Northern Ireland take up their cervical screening invitation, according to the charity.

    BBC: Northern Ireland cervical cancer campaign launched

  • The age at which women in Scotland receive their first cervical screening test will be raised from 20 to 25.

    BBC: Cervical cancer screening age in Scotland to be increased

  • More than a third of women aged 25 to 29 fail to go for cervical screening in Nottingham, figures suggest.

    BBC: Cervical screening: Third of Nottingham women miss tests

  • All women in the Isle of Man between the ages of 25 and 49 are called for cervical screening every three years.

    BBC: New cervical cancer test introduced in Isle of Man

  • The test for high risk HPV is done on the cervical screening sample, which means that women will not notice anything different when they have their regular cervical smear test.

    BBC: New cervical cancer test introduced in Isle of Man

  • AMs praised the government's cervical screening program however, Kirsty Williams AM leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, said that screening programs available to people in rural areas still needed improvement.

    BBC: Health questions

  • However the vaccine will not protect against the remaining cancer causing types, and the Department of Health said those who have been vaccinated should continue to go for routine cervical screening.

    BBC: High NI uptake of cancer vaccine

  • And maintaining high HPV vaccine coverage is extremely important because figures show cervical screening coverage is declining among 25-29-year-olds with some evidence of increasing cancer incidence at younger ages, they pointed out.

    BBC: Mum's testing affects HPV jab uptake, says survey

  • Cervical screening is not a test for cancer.

    BBC: Cervical screening: Third of Nottingham women miss tests

  • And while 100% of patients referred from the breast screening programme began treatment within two months, this only happened for 88.2% of women referred from the cervical screening programme and 84% of people referred after screening for colorectal cancer.

    BBC: Scottish health statistics revealed

  • The nurses, who will be equipped with cervical screening and treatment tools as well as standard smartphones, will take a photograph of the cervix with their phone and send it via SMS to a medical expert in a specialized clinic.

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  • Research assistant Angela Spencer said the results suggest that a mother's attitudes and behaviour with respect to her own cervical screening attendance or to preventive programmes in general, are important determinants in her decision to vaccinate her daughter, particularly at younger ages.

    BBC: Mum's testing affects HPV jab uptake, says survey

  • "That's the beauty of it -- for early grade cancers, those will be able to be treated right in the field, right in the rural area, " says Dr Karen Yeates, of Queen's University, Ontario, the principal investigator of The Kilimanjaro Cervical Screening Project.

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  • It performs all types of clinical tests but also touts itself as a pioneer in gene-oriented tests for things such as HIV resistance and cervical cancer screening.

    FORBES: Good Genes

  • But now a group of Canadian and Tanzanian health innovators have joined forces to apply simple and safe mobile technologies to improve cervical cancer screening and thus potentially reduce mortality rates in the East African country.

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  • John Shepherd, a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at St Bartholomew's, told the Sunday Telegraph the success of Britain's cervical cancer screening programme meant that the disease was being caught in its early stage in many more patients.

    BBC: Fresh hope for cancer patients

  • The only approved HPV test on the market is for women, for use in cervical-cancer screening.

    CNN: FDA panel urges HPV vaccine be given to boys

  • In a recent study economists at the OECD found that America does indeed do well on some measures, such as breast-cancer survival rates and cervical-cancer screening, compared with other rich countries.

    ECONOMIST: Reforming American health care

  • Dr. Bluementhal developed an affordable, low tech screening method for cervical cancer that is likely to save tens of thousands of lives in third world countries over the next decade, and has the potential to save hundreds of thousands.

    FORBES: Mike Bloomberg Compares Steve Jobs To Edison, Einstein

  • Although there are national screening programmes for certain cancers, like breast and cervical, public awareness of symptoms and the need to seek help early is still too low.

    BBC: Unhealthy Britain: nation's five big killers

  • Hospital employees as well as their dependents repeatedly had lower compliance rates for preventive screening for cancers- colorectal, breast, and cervical- as well as lower rates for cholesterol and lipid testing compared to the general workforce.

    FORBES: Are Hospital Employees Less Healthy than other U.S. Workers?

  • Since routine screening was introduced in 1989, the death rate through cervical cancer has dropped by a third.

    BBC: News Online

  • Before screening, the UK was set to see thousands more women dying from cervical cancer.

    BBC: NEWS | Health | Women 'ignorant' over smear tests

  • More recently, it rebuffed routine prostate-cancer screening and the use of tests that detect the viruses that can cause cervical cancer.

    WSJ: Scott Gottlieb: Meet the ObamaCare Mandate Committee

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