HPV self-testing with same-day treatment as the national cervical programme
Women can collect their own sample for the virus that causes cervical cancer; those who test positive can be treated the same day with a simple heat device. Done nationally, this could eliminate a disease that still kills hundreds of thousands of women a year.
WHO's cervical cancer elimination strategy sets 70% screening coverage with a high-performance test and 90% treatment of pre-cancer. Self-collected HPV testing removes the speculum exam that deters women, and portable thermal ablation allows treatment at the point of screening without histology. Point-of-care HPV tests now return results within an hour. The proposal is to make this combination, rather than cytology, the default national programme and fund it as a vertical campaign.
- Most of the world has almost no cancer care · Seven in ten cancer deaths happen in low- and middle-income countries, where radiotherapy, pathology, surgery and drugs are scarce.
- Prevention we already have is not deployed · Around four in ten cancers are preventable with tools we already own: vaccines, tobacco control, weight, alcohol, sun and infection control.
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