Queensland health is urging women to undergo cervical cancer testing after a new report showed that only around 53 percent of eligible women undertook the life-saving test in 2015-2016.
Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young calls a drop in testing is “alarming”, as 57 per cent less woman are getting screened than a decade ago.
Young says there has not been a drop in cervical cancer in the past decade and that women not getting tested are really putting themselves at risk.