Women over 30 years old have a new option when it comes to screening for cervical cancer, according to guidelines released Tuesday by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and published in the journal JAMA.
Cervical cancer is among the easiest gynecologic cancers to prevent, and two screening tests can help detect the disease early: the routine Pap smear and testing for human papillomavirus, or HPV.
The introduction of HPV vaccines has led to a sharp reduction in the number of young women with the cancer-causing infection in England, new data from Public Health England finds.
