"3 in 4 people attend cervical screening"

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Some good news from Yorkshire Cancer Research that apparently not only are 100% of women attending cervical screening, but 50% of men must be too.

Incredible performance, job done. 👏

Must be painful for them getting thst speculum in

I also like the very helpful addition at the bottom that anyone age 25-64 with a cervix should attend screening. Very helpful, particularly for our area which has high levels of women who are ESL.

Or maybe 100% of men and 50% of women already attend. That's why they show a woman in the ad, because the other 50% of women are the ones who don't reply to letters.

Or something.

Given they have a helpful footnote anyway, surely it would be quite a good idea to put WOMEN AGED 25-64 in the main poster and a footnote saying 'Transmen: If you are 25-64 and still have a cervix, please also attend'

According to Sainsburys public address system, 50% of people experience menopause. They didn't say how they identified that 50%. Why is it so difficult to say the word "women"?

Well, they can fuck off.

I don't mind the Sainsbury's message. I think it's quite common for organizations to forget that 50% of the population are indeed women, and that being a woman is just as normal as being a man.

Some good news from Yorkshire Cancer Research that apparently not only are 100% of women attending cervical screening, but 50% of men must be too.

Idiots.

Of course, broadly speaking they are correct. It just sounds contrived to avoid using the easily understood words.

The poster does have that bloody rainbow in the bottom right corner, so obviously the word woman is forbidden.

It’s very hard to find a good response to this utter piffle. FUCK OFF seems about right.

The word is WOMAN. Three out of four WOMEN attend cervical screening. Four out of four men do not, because they don’t have cervices.

Health messaging should be clear and targeted, so that women with ESL, low literacy and with SEN can access it. This is an utter waste of resource.

Thanks for this. I've emailed Yorkshire Cancer research. Will share if they respond.

Whats wrong with being a woman? Why is it so unmentionable? It makes me feel like being a woman is dirty or wrong in some way. I used to be proud to be a woman but now I feel it's something I am supposed to ashmaed of and to hide.

Yet their website very clearly talks about women:

yorkshirecancerresearch.org.uk/how-we-help/diagnose-cancer/

Thousands of women living in Yorkshire will be offered tests to find out if they are at high risk of cancer as part of a new clinical trial.

Women aged 65-79 who are no longer automatically invited for cervical screening will be offered an at-home urine test in a new study led by Ms Clare Gilham and Professor Julian Peto at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Led by Dr Melanie Cooper and Professor Marcus Rattray at the University of Bradford, a £441,000 study will explore new ways to encourage women in the South Asian community to take part in screening.

My DH is one of the 25% of people who does not attend. Should I be worried, what can I do?! Maybe I should contact the charity to ask them.

How are they broadly correct?

I think endoftheline was talking about M&S's poster about 50% of people going through menopause. Not the 3/4 people having their smear tests.

‘ only women have a cervix’
Not according to some MP’s.

Is that why the poster is a nice bright pink all over? To help us guess which people they're talking about so they don't have to say the words?

Wait what? So assuming all women attend, that means 50 percent of men are attending too? What am I missing? Surely we shouldn't be wasting resources by asking men to attend just to see if they have a cervix? I thought the NHS didn't have enough money? What a waste of tax payers money.

Seems to me there might be a need for stickers that say 'women' so some of these posters can be corrected.

Are they genuinely asking men to take time off work, strip down and be examined to see if they have a cervix? And now this is complaining that half of men are refusing to turn up to those degrading appointments? Or is it wink wink - you know we mean women not people? Women is just too dirty a word to utter so we said people. God I hate this world.

Well because women are people.

PP means technically it’s correct but they’ve purposefully avoided using the word woman.

Do charities/campaigners honestly think that transmen/non binary people who are biologically female do not realise that they are not immune to female health issues? If you have a cervix, you can get cervical cancer. If you have breasts (both male and female) you can get breast cancer. It you have testicles you can get testicular cancer.

That doesn't make it correct!

75% of a much bigger group does not mean 75% of the subset group.

If 75% of people attend, that's three quarters of the entire group of people, and women are only 50% of that group. So more than all the women must be attending to make it true.

It's a ridiculous statement and a waste of money. If they want to target women who don't attend, they need to find out why not - and one of those reasons might be that they don't know they need to, because the language used isn't clear!