Cervical cancer is one of the most preventable and treatable forms of the disease, with the sexually transmitted infection the human99 percent of cases. In 2018, the World Health Organization made a call to see cervical cancer eliminated worldwide, setting the threshold at four or fewer cases per 100,000 women.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends boys and girls get their shot against HPV at around the age of 11 or 12. Meanwhile, women aged between 21 to 29-years-old are advised to get what is known as a Pap testWomen aged between 30 to 65-years-old may have a pap test and or a HPV examination, where the cervix is checked for signs of HPV, every three or five years, respectively.
"Despite the 8-year difference in elimination year between the status quo projections for the two models, we identified greater convergence between the models for scenarios in which screening was scaled up than scenarios in which only vaccination was scaled up," they wrote.