Cervical Screening
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Cervical screening is not a test for cancer, it’s a method of preventing cancer by checking a sample of cells from your cervix for high risk types of Human papillomavirus (HPV) – NHS
It’s estimated up to 5,000 cases of cervical cancer are prevented each year in the UK because of cervical screening.
- All women aged 25 to 64 and people with a cervix are invited for cervical screening every 5 years to check the health of their cervix.
- If you’re a trans woman or are non-binary and do not have a cervix, you do not need to have cervical screening. But, if you’re registered with a GP as female, you may still be invited. Contact your GP surgery, sexual health service or transgender health clinic and ask to stop being invited.
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