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Delays and confusion cloud roll-out of new cervical cancer screening program

  • Written by Jane Williams, Researcher at the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM), University of Sydney
imageWomen are confused about how the new test for human papillomavirus (HPV), pictured here, will help them prevent cervical cancer. Let's fix that.from www.shutterstock.com

Australia’s new national cervical cancer screening program has had a bad week.

The government announced it would delay the May 1 roll-out of its new program until Dec 1, 2017....

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