Turning the Tide: Recommendations to Increase Cervical Cancer Screening Among Women Who Are Underscreened

Philippe Descamps1, Samantha Dixon, Francesc Xavier Bosch Jose

  • 1ACCESS Consensus Group, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital Angers, FIGO, and International Relations Committee, CNGOF (French College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists), Angers, France (P.D.); ACCESS Consensus Group, Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust, London, United Kingdom (S.D.); HPV Information Center (ICO and IARC), HPV World (HPW), Barcelona, Spain (F.X.B.J.); Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom (M.K.); EUROGIN, 1000 Femmes 1000 Vies Patient Association, Paris, France (J.M.); WOMEN Inc. and UN Women, and European Economic and Social Committee on behalf of Gender Equality Civil Society, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (O.N.); Unity Health Toronto, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (L.N.); National Screening Service Ireland, Dublin, Ireland (M.O.); and Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (J.S.S.).

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