HPV testing in Polish population-based cervical cancer screening programme (HIPPO project)-study protocol of a randomised healthcare policy trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

An Organised Cervical Cancer Screening Programme (OCCSP) was started in Poland in 2006/2007. Each woman aged 25 to 59 is eligible for a free Pap test every 3 years in OCCSP. Despite implementation of the OCCSP, the age-standardised cervical cancer (CC) incidence and mortality rates in 2019 were 7.3/100 000 and 3.9/100 000 respectively and were still higher than those in Western European countries with well-organised screening programmes. Apart from low coverage of the OCCSP, suboptimal performance of the screening test (conventional cytology) may be partially responsible for this situation. Several countries have already incorporated high risk Human Papillomavirus (hrHPV) testing in CC screening as a more sensitive tool reducing the risk of missing precancerous lesions a

SUBMITTER: Glinska P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10655392 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature