The Latest Breaking News from Cervical Cancer

Nationally, those invited to screening who had a test in the previous three years, as of March last year, was at the lowest level since records began in 2002

Data shows that less Scots women are choosing to get their scheduled cervical screening.

In the UK, 1 in 4 people invited for a smear test don’t go to their appointment.

The move comes during Cervical Screening Awareness Week, from June 20 to 26, which urges more women to have a smear test.

Tracey Virgo was inspired to take on an epic charity trek across the Jordanian desert after her own experience with abnormal smears

In the UK, 99.8% of cervical cancer cases are preventable

Can you request to have an earlier smear before 25? Can you have sex before a smear test?

The finding came from a study of 1.3 million women in England.

In an amazing twist of fate, the aggressive cervical cancer tumor that killed Henrietta Lacks, a 31-year old African American mother, became an essential tool that helped the biomedical field flourish in the 20th century. As a cancer researcher who uses HeLa cells in my everyday work, even I sometimes…