The Legacy of Henrietta Lacks
Earlier this month, the 1st of August 2021, marked the 101st birthday of Henrietta Lacks. While she died in 1951 of cervical cancer, her life […]
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Cervical Screening Self-sampling – a game changer
This blog was written by Mairéad Lyons. Mairéad is a Senior Consultant to YouScreen the HPV Self-Sampling study. She has been working in healthcare for over […]
Vaccine hesitancy and disease prevention – It’s not just coronavirus which stands to lose
In this post Rose Brade, International Policy Advisor at Cancer Research UK provides her personal experiences with vaccine hesitancy and the implications for cervical cancer […]
Equality and Equity in Cancer Screening: How can we personalise interventions and still be fair?
The classic American illustration explaining the difference between equity and equality is of three people trying to watch a baseball game from behind a fence. […]
Sisters are doin’ it for themselves
Dr Anita Lim tells us how her team’s research is building the evidence-base for introducing cervical screening self-testing in England, along with other approaches to […]