Hot Topic! Cervical Cancer

 Period blood test could offer less invasive alternative to cervical screening reported the BBC in February. This interesting and less invasive test is still undergoing research. What do you know about cervical cancer?

Check these resources for an overview, key points, diagnosis, treatment options, follow-up and more.

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BMJ Best Practice – Cervical cancer - Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment | BMJ Best Practice ; Cervical cancer screening - Medical information | BMJ Best Practice

Clinical Key (available to UHNM only) – Cervical Cancer - ClinicalKey ; Cervical Cancer, Survivorship - ClinicalKey

Clinical Knowledge Summaries – Cervical screening | Health topics A to Z | CKS | NICE

Cochrane Library systematic reviews – Effects of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programmes on community rates of HPV‐related disease and harms from vaccination - Henschke, N - 2025 | Cochrane Library

Patient Information

• Cervical cancer- Patient Information | BMJ Best Practice
• Cervical Cancer: What to Know - ClinicalKey
• Cancer of the Cervix (Cervical Cancer): Lowering Your Risk - ClinicalKey

Selected articles from our journal collection

• Is less more in the surgical treatment of early-stage cervical cancer? (2022) Schaafsma, Mirte;Plante, Marie;Mom, Constantijne H.;van Trommel, Nienke E., Current Opinion in Oncology, Vol. 34 Issue 5, pp. 473–489
• Preoperative brachytherapy of early-stage cervical cancer: A multicenter study by the SFRO brachytherapy group (2024) Ka, Kanta; Cordoba, Abel; Cagetti, Leonel Varela; Schiappa, Renaud; Kissel, Manon; Escande, Alexandre; Casabianca, Laurence Gonzague; Buchalet, Chloe; Gouy, Sebastien; Morice, Philippe; Narducci, Fabrice; Martinez, Carlos; Jauffret, Camille; Lambaudie, Eric; Delpech, Yann; Laas, Enora; Gaillard, Thomas; Hannoun-Levi, Jean-Michel; Espenel, Sophie; Chargari, Cyrus Gynecologic Oncology, Vol. 188, pp. 90–96
• Overcoming barriers to cervical screening using Beattie’s model of health promotion (2024) Harley, Edel;Harley, Jacqueline, Primary Health Care Vol. 34 Issue 1, pp. 18–24
• Late effects of cancer treatment: what nurses need to know: People are surviving cancer for longer, but there may be long-term effects nurses should be aware of to inform and support patients. (2023) Oxtoby, Kathy, Cancer Nursing Practice, Vol. 22 Issue 4, pp. 6–8, 2023.

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