Cervical cancer: Facts and figures

• Every year in the UK, over 3,000 women will be diagnosed with cervical cancer and nearly 1,000 women will die from the disease.
• Cervical cancer is the most common cancer in women aged 35 and under.
• Cervical cancer is not thought to be hereditary.

• Cervical cancer, in 99.7% of cases, is caused by persistent infection with a virus called human papillomavirus (HPV).
• Around 4 out of 5 people (80%) will be infected with HPV at some point in their lives.
• However, for the majority of women this will not result in cervical cancer.

• Cervical cancer is rare while HPV infection is common.
• Cervical screening is the process of taking a sample of cells from your cervix which are then examined to detect abnormalities that might develop into cancer in the future.

Visit www.jostrust.org.uk for more information about cervical cancer