Home tests can save more women from cervical cancer

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A simple test saves lives. Three out of four women who died of cervical cancer in the screening age of 25-69 years had not had a Pap smear in the past three and a half years.
In 2021, 345 women were diagnosed with cervical cancer in Norway, and 79 women died from the disease.
The vast majority of people who get cervical cancer develop the disease due to having a long-term human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection.
“It’s extremely common to have the HPV virus one or more times in your life,” says Ingrid Baasland, a gynaecologist and researcher at NTNU.
The vast majority of infections go away on their own without causing illness. However, in some people the HPV infections can cause cell changes, and some cell changes can develop into cancer.
In the vast majority of people, this development takes place over many years, making it possible for screening to pick up precursors to cancer and remove them.
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