Key Takeaways

Mailed HPV self-collection kits more than doubled cervical cancer screening participation compared to a telephone reminder

Screening rates increased to 41.1% and 46.6% with self-collection kits versus 17.4% with only a telephone reminder

More than 80% of participants who received home test kits performed self-collection at home rather than in clinic

Participation in a cervical cancer screening program in a safety-net health system more than doubled when patients received at-home test kits by mail rather than just a telephone reminder to get screened, a randomized trial showed.

Six months after initial contact, 17.4% of patients invited by telephone to attend a clinic-based screening had participated in the program as compared with 41.1% of those who had an at-home test f

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