This week is the annual Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust cervical cancer prevention week and we encourage you to share information in the attached briefing about prevention of cervical cancer and how people can reduce their risk.
The lifetime risk of developing cervical cancer is 1/139 for women in the UK. Cervical cancer incidence decreased by nearly half between the late 1980s until the early 2000s, but the last decade has seen an increase in rates in younger women. The most effective form of prevention is regular screening along with HPV immunisation from age 12.
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