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Jane Corscadden

Derry MLA calls for HPV screening to be adopted for cervical cancer in Northern Ireland

An MLA has called for "urgent progress" to be made to cervical cancer screenings in Northern Ireland.

Foyle MLA Sinéad McLaughlin has said HPV screening should be adopted here as the primary screening test, as recommended by the NI Cervical Screening Programme.

Women in Northern Ireland are still tested using a different method called cytology, which examines the cells under a microscope, and is less sensitive than HPV screening.

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