From swabs to urine sampling: Rethinking cervical screening in general practice

About this episode

The episode discusses innovations in cervical screening, focusing on urine self-sampling as an alternative to traditional methods.

Today, we’re speaking to Prof Emma Crosbie, Professor of Gynaecological Oncology based at the University of Manchester. Title of paper: Urine human papillomavirus testing for cervical screening in a UK general screening population: a diagnostic test accuracy study Available at: https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2025.0105 The switch from primary cytology to primary human papillomavirus testing has enabled innovations in self-sampling for cervical screening. This study shows that urine self-collected with a first-void urine collection device has similar diagnostic test accuracy and acceptability to cervical sampling in a general screening population. Urine self-sampling has real-world potential as an alternative cervical screening option. Transcript This transcript was generated using AI and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Please be aware it may contain errors or omissions. Speaker A 00:00:01.440 - 00:01:07.140 Hello and welcome to BJGP Interviews. I'm Nada Khan and I'm one of the Associate Editors of the bjgp. Thanks for listening to this podcast today. In today's episode, we're speaking to Professor Emma Crosby, who is professor of Gynecological Oncology based at the University of…

People in this episode

Host: Nada Khan

Guest: Prof Emma Crosbie

Topics covered

• cervical screening
• human papillomavirus testing
• gynecological oncology
• self-sampling
• diagnostic test accuracy

Keywords

• cervical screening
• urine sampling
• human papillomavirus
• diagnostic accuracy
• self-sampling

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Manchester, BJGP

Books & works: Urine human papillomavirus testing for cervical screening in a UK general screening population: a diagnostic test accuracy study

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