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Nearly 100% of cervical cancer is caused by HPV (Human papillomavirus) and up to 85% of the population (both men and women) had been infected with HPV once in their lifetime
Cervical cancer in Thai women

The third most common cancer

New diagnosed cases of cervical cancer per year
Number of deaths from cervical cancer

Cervical cancer screening test
There are 3 cervical cancer screening tests as table below
Test
What to detect?
Comment
Pap test (Pap smear)
Cervical cell changes
(abnormal cell appearance)
(abnormal cell appearance)
Old method
HPV DNA test
High-risk HPV (that causes cervical cancer)
More sensitivity
Co-testing
Both (high-risk HPV and cervical cell changes)
More sensitivity
*The largest prospective trial to evaluate Pap and HPV DNA screening test strategies that enrolled over 47,000 women, ATHENA study shows significantly more sensitive detecting precancerous lesion
“HPV self-sampling improves screening for cervical cancer”
In 2021, World Health Organization (WHO) had launched a new guideline for cervical cancer prevention that suggested using HPV DNA test as primary screening test by using either samples taken by a health-care provider or self-collected samples. Some research shows a cervical screening test using a self-collected sample is just as accurate at detecting HPV as a clinician-collected sample during a pelvic examination

- Easy to use
- Fast (within 1 minutes)
- High accuracy (up to 99.6% of valid sample collection)
- Reliable (more than 20+ clinical studies)
How to collect?
References
- National Cancer Institute [Internet]. HPV and cancer. [updated 2021 Oct 25; cited 2022 May 28]. Available from https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/infectious-agents/hpv-and-cancer
- Centers of Disease control and Prevention [Internet]. Reasons to get HPV vaccine. [updated 2021 Nov 10; cited 2022 Jun 20]. Available from https://www.cdc.gov/hpv/parents/vaccine/six-reasons.html
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (World Health Organization) [Internet]. Thailand fact sheets (Globocan2020). [updated 2022 Mar 28; cited 2022 May 28]. Available from: https://gco.iarc.fr/today/data/factsheets/populations/764-thailand-fact-sheets.pdf
- Wright TC, Stoler MH, Behrens CM, Sharma A, Zhang G, Wright TL. Primary cervical cancer screening with human papillomavirus: end of study results from the ATHENA study using HPV as the first-line screening test. Gynecol Oncol. 2015;136(2):189-97.
- World Health Organization (WHO). WHO guideline for screening and treatment of cervical pre-cancer lesions for cervical cancer prevention, second edition. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2021.
- Polman NJ, Ebisch RMF, Heideman DAM, Melchers WJG, Bekkers RLM, Molijn AC, et al. Performance of human papillomavirus testing on self-collected versus clinician-collected samples for the detection of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia of grade 2 or worse: a randomised, paired screen-positive, non-inferiority trial. Lancet Oncology. 2019 Feb;20(2):229-238.