Overview
The Enduring Consensus Cervical Cancer Screening and Management Guidelines (Enduring Guidelines) effort is a standing committee of 19 organizations including medical professional societies, patient advocacy groups, and federal agencies, to continuously evaluate new technologies and approaches to cervical cancer screening, management, and surveillance. The Enduring Guidelines process selectively incorporates new technologies and approaches with adequate supportive data to more effectively improve cancer prevention for high-risk individuals and decrease unnecessary procedures in low-risk individuals. Using systematic literature reviews and primary data sources, risk of precancer are estimated and recommendations are made based on risk estimates in the context of established risk-based clinical action thresholds. The Enduring Guidelines process considers health equity and health disparities by assuring inclusion of diverse populations in the evidence review and risk assessment, and by developing recommendations that provide a choice of well-validated strategies that can be adapted to different settings.
Introduction to scope and process of Enduring Guidelines: