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Home HPV test schemes. Recently, schemes have been announced in the UK that will allow women to do their own at-home HPV tests. In certain areas of London, a trial called YouScreen is being offered. This trial will offer a home test kit to 31,000 women who are 15 months overdue for a cervical screening.
Feb 24, 2021 · NHS gives women Human Papillomavirus Virus (HPV) home testing kits to cut cancer deaths. More than 31,000 women will be offered kits to carry out smear tests in the privacy and convenience of their own homes in a trial, NHS England has announced.
Jul 24, 2024 · Home HPV tests can be purchased online through providers such as Check4Cancer and Superdrug Online Doctor, but these aren’t approved as part of the UK’s cervical screening programme, so you...
Jul 17, 2024 · People in the YouScreen trial used a vaginal swab (like a long cotton bud) to take their sample, either at home or at the GP practice. Samples taken at home could be posted for free to the laboratory for testing. If HPV was detected, people were invited for a follow-up test with a clinician.
May 22, 2024 · Cervical screening tests (‘smear tests’) that you can do yourself at home have recently been trialled in the UK. If effective, there’s hope that they’ll become widely available. But who can get a test kit and how easy is it to do? Here I’ll answer some of the key questions around HPV self-tests.
Cervical screening, which used to be called smear test, is a test to check the health of the cervix and help prevent cervical cancer. It's offered to women and people with a cervix aged 25 to 64.
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Jul 17, 2024 · A trial led by King’s College London and the NHS in north London gave women a vaginal swab kit to use at home that could then be posted back to medics to check, instead of having to undergo...
