General practice & primary care · UKMLA & AKT
Cervical screening programme
A free high-yield preview for the UKMLA Applied Knowledge Test, covering how to recognise this condition. The full SA Note notes add investigations, management and complications, with practice questions on this topic.
Key high-yield points
- Most common gynaecological malignancy in women under 35 in the UK; ~3,200 new cases/year
- HPV is the necessary cause in >99% of cases - high-risk types 16 and 18 account for ~70% of cervical cancers
- Transformation zone (between original and current squamocolumnar junction) is where the vast majority of pre-cancers originate
- Progression from HPV infection to invasive cancer typically takes 10-15 years - the window for effective screening
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