Comparison of use of vaginal HPV self-sampling and offering flexible appointments as strategies to reach long-term non-attending women in organized cervical screening.

Summary, in English

Many cervical cancers occur among women who have not attended cervical screening. Strategies to reach non-attending women may improve the effectiveness of cervical screening programmes.

• Author: Lotten Darlin; Christer Borgfeldt; Ola Forslund; Emir Henic; Maria Hortlund; Joakim Dillner; Päivi Kannisto
• Department/s: Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Lund); Clinical Microbiology, Malmö; BioCARE: Biomarkers in Cancer Medicine improving Health Care, Education and Innovation
• Publishing year: 2013
• Language: English
• Pages: 155-160
• Publication/Series: Journal of Clinical Virology
• Volume: 58
• Issue: 1
• Links: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23867008?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcv.2013.06.029
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Topic: Infectious Medicine
• Status: Published
• Research group: Clinical Microbiology, Malmö
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1386-6532