National Cervical Screening Program monitoring report 2019
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Topic: Cancer screening
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2019) National Cervical Screening Program monitoring report 2019, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 04 December 2023.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2019). National Cervical Screening Program monitoring report 2019. Canberra: AIHW.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. National Cervical Screening Program monitoring report 2019. AIHW, 2019.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. National Cervical Screening Program monitoring report 2019. Canberra: AIHW; 2019.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2019, National Cervical Screening Program monitoring report 2019, AIHW, Canberra.
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This is the first report to monitor the National Cervical Screening Program since it introduced 5-yearly HPV tests in 2017. In 2018, among women aged 25–74, 1,795,395 had an HPV test, and 9% of all screening HPV tests performed were positive for HPV types that can cause cervical cancer.
- ISSN: 2651-9623
- ISBN: 978-1-76054-654-0
- Cat. no: CAN 132
- Pages: 96
Findings from this report:
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1,795,395 women aged 25–74 had an HPV test in 2018
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Screening HPV test positivity was 2% for oncogenic HPV types 16 or 18
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Screening HPV test positivity was 7% for oncogenic HPV types other than 16 or 18
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757 women aged 25–74 were diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2015