About this item

Issue date:
1 March 2007
Status:
Current
Corporate Authors:
Manatū Hauora - Ministry of Health, National Screening Unit,
Type:
Report,
Topic:
Screening, Women's health,
ISBN:
0-478-29689-4

A key objective of the National Cervical Screening Programme (NCSP) is to reduce the incidence of cervical cancer by detecting precancerous high grade squamous intra-epithelial lesions (HSIL). Monitoring trends in HSIL detection is critical to understanding the epidemiology of cervical cancer in New Zealand and to evaluating the performance of the NCSP.