Jennifer Smith Archives - UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

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A new study is highlighting a simple but effective way to improve women’s health screenings for women who are often missed by traditional programs.

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UNC Lineberger is the first cancer center to enroll participants in a national study focused on expanding access to cervical cancer screening through self-testing, an approach that could help reduce the number of women diagnosed with cervical cancer due to underscreening.

Jennifer Smith, PhD, MPH, Noel Brewer, PhD, and colleagues report mailing HPV self-collection tests and offering assistance to book in-clinic screening appointments to under-screened, low-income women improved cervical cancer screening nearly two-fold compared to scheduling assistance alone.

The NCI awarded Jennifer Smith, PhD, MPH, Lameck Chinula, MD, and colleagues a grant to develop cost-effective screening and treatment strategies for invasive cervical cancer in women living with HIV in low and middle-income countries.

A team of UNC researchers are partnering with colleagues at three institutions in Africa to study HIV-associated malignancies: Kaposi sarcoma, cervical cancer and lymphoma.

Cervical cancer prevention effort in Malawi

The United States Agency for International Development, in partnership with the U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, will fund two new programs to prevent cervical cancer in sub-Saharan Africa, including a project led by UNC scientists and physicians in Malawi.

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Enlace Latino NC: Human papillomavirus is the most common sexually transmitted infection.

UNC Lineberger joins national initiative to advance cervical cancer screening through HPV self-testing

Patient Engagement HIT: At-Home HPV Testing Kits Could Close Cervical Cancer Screening Gaps

AJMC: Mailing At-Home HPV Tests May Boost Cervical Cancer Screening Rates in Underscreened Women

Becker’s Hospital Review: Mailed HPV kits increase screening uptake 72%, UNC finds

Cervical cancer screening doubles when under-screened women are mailed testing kits

UNC researchers to use $3 million grant to improve cervical cancer screening and treatment

NCI grant funds UNC-led consortium studying HIV-related cancers in sub-Saharan Africa

UNC-led team awarded $5.1M for cervical cancer prevention effort in Malawi