Cervical screening, blood donation & measles
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
How often do we need a smear test? It’s become controversial now as a new test means women and people with a cervix need checking less often. But in the future the answer might be only once a lifetime!
We hunt for the special blood that's in high demand, yet in short supply, for people with sickle cell disease. And could the disruption from the Covid pandemic be setting the stage for a large outbreak of measles?
PRESENTER: James Gallagher PRODUCER: Beth Eastwood
Credit Image: NHS Blood & Transplant
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| 0:38.2 | Hello and welcome to the Inside Health podcast with me, James Gallagher. And I've got Dr. Navdraudelada, GP and Clinical Editor at the British Medical Journal with me this week. Hello. Hi, James. How are you? I'm very well, thanks. How are you? I'm good, but I've got lots of things for you to talk about. So we've got to discuss, are we brewing up a new measles outbreak because of a fallen vaccination? The hunt |
| 0:58.5 | for special blood for people with sickle cell disease. But I really want to start with cervical |
| 1:03.6 | cancer screening. Did you see it? It was everywhere, this big petition about the changes |
| 1:08.7 | in the rules around cervical cancer screening. |
| 1:11.3 | I did see it, yeah. |
| 1:12.1 | I mean, Wales changed their screening interval, and it caused some consternation, I think. |
| 1:17.8 | More than a million people signed it. |
| 1:19.3 | It really took off. |
| 1:20.2 | Yeah, I think there are some interesting lessons there about how we implement changes to screening programs, |
| 1:26.2 | because that was a recommendation from the National |
| 1:28.6 | Screening Committee, but I guess something went awry with how those changes were communicated. |
| 1:33.6 | Well, Navajo, you're with us throughout the program and we're going to pick up on this in a minute, |
| 1:37.2 | but first of all, I want to talk to Peter Sassini. He's Professor of Cancer Prevention at King's College, London. |
| 1:42.8 | Welcome to the program. Thank you. |
| 1:44.3 | Thank you for inviting me, James. |
| 1:45.8 | Just explain for me, first of all, what's actually changing in terms of the test that's taking place. |
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