Cervical screening symposium Flashcards
HPV prevalence
peak age 15-25 and declines with age
30% in young women and men, 10% overall
75% lifetime risk of exposure
HPV can be linked to what kind of cancers?
CERVICAL , anus
penis, vulval, vagina
mouth, oropharynx
What is SIL?
abnormal growth of squamous cells detected on smear
What is CIN?
abnormal cells in cervix detected by biopsy and histology
primary and secondary prevention of HPV/CIN
vaccines
cervical screening
UK HPV immunisation programme
1st Sep 2008 given to girls born after 1st Sep 1990
bivalent vaccine - 16&18
Sept 2012 - quadrivalent 16,18,6,11 - genital warts
Sept 2014 - 2 dose regime
How are people invited to cervical screening?
invitation in post to book appointment for cervical screening at GP from 25 years old
Process of cervical screening
LBC
cells from transformational zone - squamocolumnar
25-64
high risk HPV
What happens if minor changes are seen in the smear?
referred to colposcopy
HPV test
molecular test on cells sampled from cervix
high risk HPV viral DNA or RNA
hybridisation, PCR
change in cervical cytology samples in 2020
currently all, will be only HPV positive
dyskariosis
abnormal cells
endocervix
columnar epithelium
exocervix
stratified squamous
Lab processing method
thin layer of cells - 50 000
PAP stain
imager picks up points of interest and screener reads
abnormal cell characteristics
increased size and nuclear:cytoplasmic ratio
variation in size, shape and outline
coarse irregular chromatin
nucleoli
Koliocytosis
cells with wrinkled nucleus and perinuclear halo
multinucleation
reflect HPV infection