In Jersey, patients will get more personal cervical screening service from July, health owners have said.

The Jersey government said that it would follow the recommendations of the National Screening Committee of the UK due to the available human papillomavirus (HPV) test available.

The screening detects HPV – the type of infection which is the main cause of cervical cancer.

The government said that changes mean that patients will be considered at low risk of cervical cancer.

Since July, women or people with a cervix who are 25 to 49 years of age and conduct negative tests, or have done negative tests for the first HPV and therefore at the low risk of cervical cancer, will be invited to screening at five years instead of three, the government said.

Those whose samples indicated the presence of HPV, or HPV had a recent history, would be invited for more frequent screening, it was added.

Clinical lead for cervical screening Dr. Fiona Nelson said the new HPV test raised the first problems compared to the old screening methods.

Dr. Nelson said: “HPV test is an objective test that means that sample cells do not depend on the person who looks and decide and means that there are less missing cases.”

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