Overview

Advances in cervical cancer (CC) prevention, detection, and management have transformed it from a leading cause of death in women to a preventable disease. In 2020, the World Health Assembly adopted an ambitious global resolution to eliminate CC, setting out vaccination, screening, and treatment coverage targets to be achieved by 2030. Although many European countries have been operating national CC screening programmes for several decades, inequalities in screening uptake persist, rendering women in the most disadvantaged communities most at risk of CC. In this article, we will highlight the key considerations for reducing CC screening inequalities in Europe.