Screening started in the late 1960s in Sweden and was nation-wide by the mid 1970s. The organized, population-based cervical screening program follows national recommendations but is implemented regionally. In 2015, the National Board of Health and Welfare issued new recommendations for cervical cancer that include 3-yearly HPV-based screening for women ages 30-49, 7-yearly HPV-based screening for women 50-64, and 3-yearly cytology-based screening for women 23-29. Guidelines on how to implement the new program were adopted in January 2017 and at the time of submission, primary HPV-based screening for women over the age of 30 is implemented in 3 major regions of Sweden. Further details on the new program, as well as results from the region Stockholm-Gotland where pilot HPV-based screening was started already in 2012 will be presented.
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