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Tag: Jennifer Smith
October 22, 2024
UNC Lineberger joins national initiative to advance cervical cancer screening through HPV self-testing
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.
May 15, 2023
Patient Engagement HIT: At-Home HPV Testing Kits Could Close Cervical Cancer Screening Gaps
May 11, 2023
AJMC: Mailing At-Home HPV Tests May Boost Cervical Cancer Screening Rates in Underscreened Women
May 11, 2023
Becker’s Hospital Review: Mailed HPV kits increase screening uptake 72%, UNC finds
May 11, 2023
Cervical cancer screening doubles when under-screened women are mailed testing kits
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.
November 17, 2022
UNC researchers to use $3 million grant to improve cervical cancer screening and treatment
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.
August 25, 2020
NCI grant funds UNC-led consortium studying HIV-related cancers in sub-Saharan Africa
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.
November 7, 2018
Mailed HPV tests can help find women at-risk for cervical cancer, study finds
Researchers led by UNC Lineberger's Jennifer Smith, PhD, MPH, published the results of mailing at-home, HPV self-collection kits to 193 low-income women in North Carolina who were overdue for screening according to national guidelines.