MedPage Today June 6, 2025
Participation rate of 17% with only a phone call versus 41% and 46% with self-collection tests
Key Takeaways
- Mailed HPV self-collection kits more than doubled cervical cancer screening participation compared to a telephone reminder
- Screening rates increased to 41.1% and 46.6% with self-collection kits versus 17.4% with only a telephone reminder
- More than 80% of participants who received home test kits performed self-collection at home rather than in clinic
Participation in a cervical cancer screening program in a safety-net health system more than doubled when patients received at-home test kits by mail rather than just a telephone reminder to get screened, a randomized trial showed.
Six months after initial contact, 17.4% of patients invited by telephone to attend...
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