100 cancer diagnoses in first year of screening

ONE hundred women were diagnosed with cervical cancer during the first year of CervicalCheck – the national cervical screening programme.

CervicalCheck became available to more than 1.1m women aged 25 to 60 on September 1, 2008, with the aim of reducing the incidence of cervical cancer.

In 2007, 286 cases of cervical cancer were diagnosed and in 2006, 83 women died from the disease.