Sinead Cleary, ANP in Womens Health
In this month’s Tallaght University Hospital (TUH) Talks Health Column, Sinéad Cleary Advanced Nurse Practitioner in Women’s Health at TUH outlines what every woman can do to eliminate Cervical Cancer in Ireland by 2040.
In Ireland on average 292 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer annually and 90 women die from the disease.
The WHO defines elimination as fewer than four cases per 100,000 women meaning it will become very rare. Currently Ireland has a cervical cancer rate of 10.1 women per 100,000.
The first step towards elimination here is that 90% of girls are HPV vaccinated by age 15 – right now we have an 84% coverage rate.
The next step is a 70% HPV cervical screening coverage for eligible women every five…