A Case for Offering HPV Self-Sampling to Well-Screened Women. Comment on Lesack et al. Willingness to Self-Collect a Sample for HPV-Based Cervical Cancer Screening in a Well-Screened Cohort: HPV FOCAL Survey Results. ICurr. Oncol./I 2022, I29/I, 3860–3869

Lesack et al. recently published a cross-sectional study that focused on human papillomavirus (HPV) self-sampling in the screened population, a population not conventionally thought of for HPV self-sampling. They found 52% of well-screened, highly educated women who participated in the Human Papillo...

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Published in:Current oncology (Toronto) 2022-07, Vol.29 (8)
Main Authors: Kraut, Roni, Manca, Donna, Lofters, Aisha, Babenko, Oksana
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cancer
Cervical cancer
Diagnosis
Surveys
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Summary:Lesack et al. recently published a cross-sectional study that focused on human papillomavirus (HPV) self-sampling in the screened population, a population not conventionally thought of for HPV self-sampling. They found 52% of well-screened, highly educated women who participated in the Human Papillomavirus For Cervical Cancer (HPV FOCAL) screening trial in British Columbia, Canada, would be willing to self-collect an HPV sample. We published a similar study in 2021 on well-screened, highly educated women affiliated with a family medicine clinic in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and found that 60% of these women preferred to have the option of HPV self-sampling. Our findings reinforce Lesack et al.'s results and together provide evidence for offering HPV self-sampling as an option for the well-screened population.
ISSN:1198-0052
DOI:10.3390/curroncol29080425