Every year, around 3,200 women in the UK will be diagnosed with cervical cancer – that’s almost nine per day. But with the advance of medical technology like vaccines for cancer-causing HPV and the improvement of cervical screening and treatments for abnormal cells, that doesn’t have to be the case. In fact, it’s estimated that 99.8% of cervical cancer cases in the UK are preventable. Despite this, uptake for cervical screening appointments, otherwise known as smear tests, is still low – only one in three women accept their invite. For a cancer that causes the deaths of around 850 women in the UK each year, it’s alarming that so many are missing out on the
