Cervical Screening Awareness Week - 6th-12th June
As we approach the awareness week The Eve Appeal aims to address all those seemingly 'silly' questions that young women approaching their first screening may be afraid to ask.
We hope that by addressing these questions we can help to break down that 'wall of embarrassment' that prevents young women from attending.
Cervical cancer is a largely avoidable disease now that we have HPV vaccinations and a successful national screening programme in the UK. Yet still 20% of women fail to attend screening.
- Will it hurt?
- Will I have to take my clothes off?
- I'm a virgin, do I still need it?
These are all questions that young women may need to ask but are too embarrassed to do so. The answers are here now - let's make sure the numbers of women attending screening go up this year.
The Q&A is attached below along with the earlier press release about the awareness week.
Liz Engel, Press Office
The Eve Appeal
pressoffice@eveappeal.org.uk
Direct: 020 8663 1040
Mobile: 07812 150832
Switchboard: 020 7299 4430
The Eve Appeal was set up to fund groundbreaking research into all gynaecological cancers at the Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre, UCL.
Our vision is a world where more women survive and fewer women are diagnosed with gynaecological cancers.
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