提升美国附属太平洋岛屿地区宫颈癌预防能力:太平洋防治宫颈癌项目。
Building Capacity for Cervical Cancer Prevention in U.S.-Affiliated Pacific Islands: The Pacific Against Cervical Cancer Project.
机构信息
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
出版信息
J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2024 Jul;33(7):839-847. doi: 10.1089/jwh.2024.0284. Epub 2024 Jun 12.
The U.S.-affiliated Pacific Islands (USAPI) have higher cervical cancer incidence and mortality rates and lower screening coverage compared with the United States. This is likely because of economic, geographical, health care delivery, and cultural barriers for women living in these resource-constrained, isolated regions. The most recent U.S. and World Health Organization cervical cancer screening guidelines recommended primary human papillomavirus (HPV) testing as one screening option or the preferred screening modality. Primary HPV screening-based strategies offer several advantages over current screening methods in the USAPI. However, adoption of this newer screening modality has been slow in the United States and not yet incorporated into USAPI screening programs. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and partners initiated the Pacific Against Cervical Cancer (PACe) project in 2019 to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and cost-effectiveness of primary HPV testing-based strategies in Guam and in Yap, Federated States of Micronesia. This report provides an overview of the PACe project and outlines the approaches we took in implementing primary HPV testing as a new cervical cancer screening strategy (including the option of self-sampling in Yap), encompassing four core components: (1) community engagement and education, (2) medical and laboratory capacity building, (3) health information and system improvement, and (4) modeling and cost-effectiveness analysis. The PACe project provides examples of systematic implementation and resource appropriate technologies to the USAPI, with broader implications for never screened and under-screened populations in the United States and Pacific as they face similar barriers to accessing cervical cancer screening services.
美国太平洋属地(USAPI)的宫颈癌发病率和死亡率较高,筛查覆盖率较低,而美国的这两项数据则较低。这可能是由于生活在这些资源有限、与世隔绝地区的女性面临着经济、地理、医疗保健提供和文化等障碍。最近的美国和世界卫生组织宫颈癌筛查指南建议将人乳头瘤病毒(HPV)检测作为一种筛查选择或首选的筛查方式。基于 HPV 检测的初级筛查策略相对于美国太平洋属地的现有筛查方法具有多项优势。然而,这种较新的筛查模式在美国的采用速度较慢,尚未纳入 USAPI 的筛查计划。美国疾病控制与预防中心及其合作伙伴于 2019 年启动了太平洋防治宫颈癌项目(PACe),以评估在关岛和美属密克罗尼西亚联邦 Yap 实施基于 HPV 检测的初级筛查策略的可行性、可接受性和成本效益。本报告概述了 PACe 项目,并介绍了我们在实施基于 HPV 检测的宫颈癌新筛查策略(包括 Yap 的自我采样选项)方面所采取的方法,该策略包含四个核心部分:(1)社区参与和教育,(2)医疗和实验室能力建设,(3)卫生信息和系统改进,(4)建模和成本效益分析。PACe 项目为美国太平洋属地提供了系统实施和资源适宜技术的范例,对美国和太平洋地区从未接受过或接受筛查不足的人群也具有更广泛的意义,因为这些人群在获得宫颈癌筛查服务方面面临着类似的障碍。