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Cervical cancer: US taskforce recommends HPV tests for screening, in updated guidelines

  1. Janice Hopkins Tanne
  1. New York

Women aged 30 to 65 should be screened for cervical cancer every five years with a test for human papillomavirus, the US Preventive Services Task Force has recommended in draft recommendations.1

For the first time, new draft guidelines include self-collected HPV tests, where women can use a swab to collect their own samples, alongside the other options. The task force said that this choice was just as effective as when a clinician collects the sample to be tested for HPV, and it increases testing in groups in whom screening is traditionally …

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