Cervical screening attendance and cervical cancer risk among women who have sex with women.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe cervical cancer screening participation among women who have sex exclusively with women (WSEW) and women who have sex with women and men (WSWM) compared with women who have sex exclusively with men (WSEM), and women who have never had sex and compare this with bowel (colorectal) and breast screening participation. To explore whether there is evidence of differential stage 3 cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN3) or cervical cancer risk.

Methods

We describe cervical, bowel and breast cancer screening uptake in age groups eligible for the national screening programmes, prevalent CIN3 and cervical cancer at baseline, and incident CIN3 and cervical cancer at five years follow-up, among 218,674 women in UK Biobank, a cohort of healthy volunteers from the

SUBMITTER: Saunders CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8366122 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature