Cervical cancer elimination

World Health Organization (WHO)

• Global strategy to accelerate the elimination of cervical cancer as a public health problem: https://www.who.int/initiatives/cervical-cancer-elimination-initiative#cms
• Roadmap to accelerate the elimination of cervical cancer as a public health problem in the WHO European Region 2022–2030: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/362396/72bg17e-Roadmap-CervicalCancer.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Cervical cancer elimination

• HSE marks Cervical Cancer Prevention Week with launch of Ireland’s roadmap to eliminate cervical cancer
• Ireland's roadmap to cervical cancer elimination
• Cervical cancer elimination partner pack (.pptx file)
• Cervical Cancer Elimination Project update by Dr Sarah Fitzgibbon
• Cervical cancer elimination: what does it mean and can Ireland achieve it?
• National Screening Service joint project brings Ireland closer to realising target of cervical cancer elimination: https://www.screeningservice.ie/news/news.php?idx=276

Vaccination

• About the HPV Vaccine: HPV Vaccine - HSE.ie
• Let's eliminate cervical cancer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj4x_goN2VY
• HSELand Course “THE HPV VACCINE: About the new vaccine”. Sign-up or login to your HSELand account here
• HPV Vaccination Programme in schools: https://www.hse.ie/eng/health/immunisation/pubinfo/schoolprog/
  hpv/hpv-vaccination-programme/
• HTA of extending the HPV vaccination to boys: https://www.hiqa.ie/reports-and-publications/health-technology-assessment/hta-extending-hpv-vaccination-boys
• Laura Brennan HPV Vaccine Catch-up Programme: https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/c5cfc-minister-for-health-and-the-brennan-family-announce-the-laura-brennan-hpv-vaccine-catch-up-programme/
• HPV vaccine catch-up programme: https://www.hse.ie/eng/health/immunisation/pubinfo/schoolprog/
  hpv/hpv-vaccine-catch-up-programme/

Screening

• The Real Health Podcast: from screenings to symptoms - what to know about cervical cancer with Dr Sarah Fitzgibbon
• Learn about cervical screening: Cervical Screening in Ireland - YouTube
• Why cervical screening is important: Why cervical screening is important - HSE.ie
• To check if you are on the CervicalCheck register: Register with CervicalCheck - HSE.ie
• HTA of HPV testing for cervical cancer screening: https://www.hiqa.ie/reports-and-publications/health-technology-assessment/hta-hpv-testing-cervical-cancer-screening
• Self-sampling for HPV testing and CervicalCheck: https://www.screeningservice.ie/news/news.php?idx=307
• ‘Breast, cervical and colorectal cancer 1994-2019: National trends for cancers with population-based screening programmes in Ireland’ https://www.ncri.ie/news/article/new-report-national-trends-cancers-population-based-screening-published
• National Screening Service welcomes publication of the National Cancer Registry Ireland cancer trends report showing positive impacts of cancer screening programmes: https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/media/pressrel/national-screening-service-welcomes-publication-of-the-national-cancer-registry-ireland-cancer-trends-report-showing-positive-impacts-of-cancer-screening-programmes.html
• HSELand course ‘Reducing Cancer Risk: Population-Based Cancer Screening Programmes’. Sign-up or login to your HSELand account here

Treatment

• Cervical cancer treatment: Cervical cancer - Treatment - HSE.ie
• National Cancer Control Programme Early Diagnosis of Symptomatic Cancer Plan 2022 – 2025: https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/list/5/cancer/prevention/nccp-early-diagnosis-of-cancer-plan-2022-2025-web-version.pdf
• HSELand Course Early Diagnosis of Cancer. Sign-up or login to your HSELand account here

Equity in Screening

• CervicalCheck’s multilingual video messages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtaRoakn9Mc&list=PLsQK32cdMW_xJ9z2l2dKVXrltqACRjW8f
• LGBT+ cervical screening study: https://www.screeningservice.ie/news/news.php?idx=270

Patient and Public Partnership (PPP)

• Patient and Public Partnership Strategy 2019-2023: https://www.hse.ie/eng/about/who/qid/person-family-engagement/patient-and-public-partnership/patient-and-public-partnership-strategy-2019-2023.pdf
• Patient and Public Partnership Progress Report: https://www.screeningservice.ie/news/news.php?idx=294

Useful links

• Cervical cancer: www.hse.ie/cervical-cancer
• CervicalCheck: https://www2.hse.ie/cervical-screening/
• CervicalCheck webinars and updates: https://www.cervicalcheck.ie/health-professionals/webinars-and-updates.16316.html
• Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine: www.hse.ie/hpv   
• National Cancer Control Programme: https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/list/5/cancer/
• Irish Cancer Society: https://www.cancer.ie/cancer-information-and-support/cancer-types/cervical-cancer
• The Daffodil Centre: https://daffodilcentre.org/
• Women's Health Taskforce: https://www.gov.ie/en/campaigns/-womens-health/

 

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