How about cervical cancer?
Significant decrease in deaths from cervical cancer!
Experts from the Department of Gynecology, Obstetrics and Neonatology of the 1st Faculty of Medicine of Charles University and the General Hospital are paving the way for changes in gynecological screening that have the potential to completely eradicate this cancer. The latest results from the National Screening Center show that 100 cases death from cervical cancer less for the first time since 2008. Optimistic figures confirm the fundamental impact on the decrease in mortality of the introduction of a highly sensitive HPV DNA test into preventive gynecological screening in 2021. It turns out that regular cytological smears are not sensitive enough - in up to 30 percent of women they do not even detect cervical cancer at all. Oncologists and gynecologists offer a solution to make gynecological screening for precancerous conditions more effective - a key tool is to increase the use of HPV DNA testing regularly at five-year intervals from 35 to 65 years of age. Such a setting may in the future extend the interval between smears performed by a gynecologist one year for five years!
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