BD Partners with Camtech Health to Increase Access to Cervical Cancer Screening in Singapore
First-Ever Program in the Country to Offer At-Home Self-Collection of Samples for HPV Testing
The program combines the Camtech Health HPV (human papillomavirus) test for self-collection with the BD Onclarity™ HPV Assay, which is a clinically validated test that can simultaneously detect 14 high-risk HPV strains (or "genotypes"). The program objective is to improve the rate of cervical cancer screening in
"For women in
In late 2020, the
At-home collection can help address the urgent public health challenge of reaching women
- Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women globally, with an estimated 604,000 new cases and 342,000 deaths in 2020.iv
- Almost all cervical cancer cases (more than 95%) are caused by a persistent HPV infection, an extremely common virus transmitted through sexual contact.i
- In
Singapore , cervical cancer ranks as the 10th most frequent cancer among women and the 4th most frequent cancer among women between 30 and 39 years of age.v - Cervical cancer screening among all women in
Singapore aged 25 – 74 decreased by 17% between 2007 and 2019; from 58% to 48%.vi - Among those aged 25-29, the decline has been more precipitous—from nearly 50% in 2007 to only 21% in 2019.v
"Making at-home self-collection available is the first step to empowering health and well-being, but making the test easy to use is just as important," said
HPVs are a large group of related viruses. Each virus in the group is given a number, which is called an HPV genotypevii (or "type"). BD Onclarity™ is the only FDA-approved assay that tests for an extended set of HPV types individually, and particularly for HPV52 and HPV33/58, three HPV types that pose a high-risk for causing cervical cancer in
"Providing women the ability to self-collect in the convenience of their own home is critical to improving their access to cervical cancer screening, and empowering women to take charge of their own health, especially among underserved communities in
Combining HPV self-collection with an assay that individually identified more kinds of HPV allows clinicians to focus on those women at highest risk while not overtreating those at very low risk by allowing risk stratification directly on the screening sampleVI. The BD Onclarity™ HPV Assay received the industry's first CE Mark for HPV screening from at-home self-collected vaginal samples.
About BD Onclarity™ HPV Assay
The BD Onclarity™ HPV Assay detects and identifies 14 high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) types in a single analysis and provides genotyping information from specimens collected for cervical cancer screening purposes using both BD SurePath™ Preservative Fluid and Hologic PreservCyt® Solution, as well as in the Cervical Brush Diluent tube (not approved in
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i Chua B, et al.
ii Arbyn, M. et al. (2018) Detecting cervical precancer and reaching underscreened women by using HPV testing on self samples: updated meta-analyses. Bmj 363, k4823; Cadman, L. et al. (2021) A randomised comparison of different vaginal self-sampling devices and urine for human papillomavirus testing - Predictors 5.1. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev Published Online First on
iv https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/cervical-cancer
vi National Population Health Survey 2019, ISBN 978-981-14-5641-1. Epidemiology & Disease Control Division and
vii https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/hpv/hpv-and-cancer-info.html
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