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Smokers’ interest in a national lung cancer screening programme

By Samantha Quaife and Maria Kazazis Lung cancer is typically diagnosed too late; a major reason why it remains the leading cause of cancer death both in the UK and globally. Catching lung cancer early...

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Can we help the public understand the concept of ‘overdiagnosis’ better by...

Authors: Alex Ghanouni, Cristina Renzi & Jo Waller We have previously written about ‘overdiagnosis’ – the diagnosis of an illness that would never have caused symptoms or death had it remained...

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A ‘fuzzy’ distinction between different groups of cervical screening...

Over the last two years we have blogged about our work exploring different groups of non-participants at cervical screening (aka the smear test). We have shown that women who do not attend for their...

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Fifty shades of cancer fear revisited

Do you sometimes worry about how your life would change if you were diagnosed with cancer? Most people do. And perhaps unsurprisingly so, because research shows that if you are born after 1960, there’s...

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Lessons from a (not so) rapid review

Authors: Robert Kerrison, Christian von Wagner, Lesley McGregor Introduction Systematic reviews enable researchers to collect information from various studies, in order to create a consensus. One of...

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What do women who are overdue for cervical screening know about the risk...

Authors: Mairead Ryan, Laura Marlow and Jo Waller Attending cervical screening between 25-64 years (every 3 or 5 years depending on age) means abnormal cells on the cervix can be picked up and treated...

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A new test for cervical screening is being rolled out, but how do the...

By Emily McBride and Jo Waller You might have heard that cervical screening is changing in England. If not, we’ve got you covered. In this post, we’re going to talk about the new cervical screening...

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Making it easier to book for cervical screening

Authors: Mairead Ryan, Jo Waller, Laura Marlow Over a quarter of all women who are eligible for cervical screening in Great Britain are currently overdue (that’s more than a million women). In a...

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I don’t need cervical screening anymore – or do I?

By Laura Marlow, Mairead Ryan and Jo Waller. Having cervical screening (smear tests) when you are older is just as important as when you’re younger, yet many women aged 50-64 years do not attend when...

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How does testing HPV positive make women feel about sex and relationships?

A previous blog described how a new way of looking at cervical screening samples called primary HPV testing is being introduced into the NHS Cervical Screening Programme. In this post, we will describe...

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