Posted by Paula de Souza, Helpline Advisor, 5:15 pm
Our support services at Jo’s mainly hear from women. But sometimes we also hear from men and partners of women. Sometimes they are asking about their wife or partner’s health, and at others, it’s about their own. This blog covers the most common...
Read morePosted by Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust team, 5:30 pm
Cervical screening can help prevent cervical cancer. Yet across the UK, on average, one in four women and people with a cervix do not attend their screening appointments. Among ethnic minority communities, this is even lower.
Posted by Kate Sanger, Head of Communications & Public Affairs, 3:45 pm
The Cervical Screening Programme in Wales recently announced that it is changing. As of the 1st of January the routine screening interval for women and other people with a cervix in Wales aged 25 - 49 has moved from three to five years. We’re...
Read morePosted by Imogen Pinnell, Health Information Manager, 3:00 pm
One of the big news stories today is about YouScreen: a HPV self-sampling study launching in parts of North and East London.
Posted by Hannah Dwyer, Support Services Officer, 9:45 am
Hannah Dwyer is a Support Services Officer at Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust, where she works on the Helpline and
Posted by Imogen Pinnell, Health Information Manager, 4:30 pm
How would you react if you were told you had HPV? Would you be afraid? Upset? Or simply a bit unsure of what it meant?
Posted by Imogen Pinnell, Health Information Manager, 9:45 am
It’s back-to-school time and that means thousands of children, both boys and girls (perhaps your own children) may be offered the HPV vaccine at school. You may have seen that the vaccine has been hitting the news recently and...
Read morePosted by Sophie Davies, Media volunteer, 4:00 pm
"After the story came out, which showed that the rate of cervical abnormalities in young women in Scotland has gone down by 90%, I talked about it to every single patient who came into my practice. I wanted to shout about it from the rooftops!"...
Posted by Laura Flaherty, 10:30 am
Laura, was diagnosed with Stage 1a1 cervical cancer in 2016 aged 29. She shares her experience of being told she had high-risk HPV.
Posted by Kate Sanger, Head of Communications and Public Affairs, 11:00 am
Today the NHS in Scotland has announced that it will be introducing HPV testing as the primary method for cervical screening from 2019, but what does this actually mean and how will it save lives?
