Hyo Sook Bae: FDA approves HPV self-collection screening
Ophira Ginsburg shared a post by Hyo Sook Bae, Postdoctoral Fellow at , on LinkedIn:
“At last!! Great news!!
With one important caveat: self-collection (aka ‘self-sampling’) for cervical cancer screening CAN and SHOULD be a game changer in the global effort to eliminate cervical cancer – but will succeed only if HPV-DNA based testing is affordable and available. Everywhere. ”
Quoting Hyo Sook Bae‘s post:
“FDA approves HPV self-collection screening!”
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Source: Ophira Ginsburg/LinkedIn and Hyo Sook Bae/LinkedIn
Ophira Ginsburg is a Canadian medical oncologist, humanitarian, and global cancer advocate. Currently, she is the Senior Scientific Officer and Senior Advisor for Clinical Research at the US NCI’s Center for Global Health. Formerly based at the University of Toronto, Canada, she was a Medical Officer at the World Health Organization (WHO) Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, and has served as an ad hoc consultant to several UN agencies. She is the co-chair of The Lancet Commission on Women and Cancer. In 2022, Dr. Ginsburg won the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s Humanitarian Award.