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Readers react to Monroe County reinstating its mask requirement

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Readers weigh in on the annexation debate in Monroe County

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What is cervical cancer, and how do we protect ourselves?

Endemic in the community, tracing HPV from person to person is fruitless. Sometimes it clears up on its own, without ever showing any symptom. But if the body’s immune system is not capable of getting rid of the virus, it can lead to abnormal cells – similar to warts on the skin – growing on the cervix, which can sometimes turn into cancer. Testing Cervical screening, also called a smear or pap test, is low-cost and accurate. It finds abnormal changes in the cells of the cervix. Women, wahine Māori and trans and non-binary people who have been sexually active should get regular cervical screening every three years from age 25 until they turn 70.

Cervical cancer: Why women avoid getting smears

New Zealand’s current screening programme calls for a smear test every three years for women aged 25 to 69 years. And it has been successful, reducing incidences of cancer by 50 per cent and mortality rates by 60 per cent since the programme was introduced in 1990. However, only three-quarters of eligible women are being screened with Māori, Pasifika and Asian demographics less likely than European New Zealanders to have regular screenings. “It is a system failure that women don’t want to get a cervical cancer screening,” said Professor Bev Lawton, director of the Centre for Women’s Health Research at Victoria University in Wellington who is advocating for a self-test procedure to be common practice in New Zealand. “We just have to have a test that suits them.”

What is cervical cancer, and how do we protect our wāhine?

Endemic in the community, tracing HPV from person to person is fruitless. Sometimes it clears up on its own, without ever showing any symptom. But if the body’s immune system is not capable of getting rid of the virus, it can lead to abnormal cells – similar to warts on the skin – growing on the cervix, which can sometimes turn into cancer. Testing Cervical screening, also called a smear or pap test, is low-cost and accurate. It finds abnormal changes in the cells of the cervix. Females who have been sexually active should get regular cervical screening every three years from age 25 until they turn 70.

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