The IARC Perspective on Cervical Cancer Screening

Véronique Bouvard¹, Nicolas Wentzensen¹, Anne Mackie¹+28

• ¹From the International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon (V.B., W.P., B.I.I.R., I.M.M., B.L.-S.), and the National Public Health Agency, Saint-Maurice (F.F.H.) - both in France; the National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD (N.W., M. Schiffman); Public Health England and Screening, London (A.M.); Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam (J. Berkhof); VCS Foundation, Melbourne, VIC (J. Brotherton), Australia; Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale - IRCCS Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy (P.G.R.); the University of Toronto, Toronto (R.K.); the American Cancer Society (R. Smith), Emory University (M.H.C.), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (M. Saraiya) - all in Atlanta; the Center for the Study of the State and Society, and the National Scientific and Technical Research Council - both in Buenos Aires (S.A.); the Casablanca Cancer Registry, Casablanca, Morocco (K.B.); The Daffodil Centre, a joint venture between the Cancer Council NSW and the University of Sydney, King's Cross, NSW, Australia (K.C.); the University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences, Harare (Z.M.C.); Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona (M.P.); PATH, Seattle (S. de Sanjosé); Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (M.E.); McGill University, Montreal (E.F.); Teikyo University, and the National Cancer Center - both in Tokyo (C.H.); the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh (C.S.H.); Hospital Universitario San Ignacio, Bogota, Colombia (R.M.); the National Cancer Institute, Bangkok, Thailand (S. Sangrajrang); Research Triangle Institute International, New Delhi, India (R. Sankaranarayanan); Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing (F.Z.); and Sciensano, Brussels (M.A.).