The Nordic country's ambitious timeline relies on high vaccination uptake and efficient mass screening and follow-up treatment.
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00:00We are systematically asking all women born in 1994-1999 to come in for
00:29a shot of a most recent updated vaccine together with an HPV screening test at
00:37the same time, which is the first and most important part of the Swedish
00:45elimination project and that is to stop the circulation of HPV in the population.
00:59It shows that when they are offered it, very close to their day-to-day life, close to the
01:22universities, their workplaces, where they go out in the evening, they are willing to
01:28take the vaccine, but they live busy lives.
01:40After we don't have any more new infections, we will systematically and on a massive scale
01:48be offering the population HPV self-sampling to rapid and massive screening to find any
01:57possible precursors of this cancer.
02:00This is expected to be finished by 2027 and if successful, this will be the date when
02:10we have eliminated cervical cancer from Sweden.
02:24I think that cancer is very difficult to eliminate.
02:28This would be one of the first options where we can really eliminate the form of cancer
02:37and I think that when we have very effective tools to do this, we have an ethical requirement
02:45to actually use it to ensure that we don't have more cancer than necessary.