Yap, Sarsha
Luo, Qingwei
Wade, Stephen
Weber, Marianne
Banks, Emily
Canfell, Karen
O’Connell, Dianne L.
Steinberg, Julia
Article History
Received: 5 September 2021
Accepted: 5 May 2022
First Online: 14 May 2022
Declarations
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: The conduct of the 45 and Up Study was approved by the University of New South Wales Human Research Ethics Committee. The NSW Population and Health Services Research Ethics Committee approved the record linkage and analysis of the 45 and Up Study data (approval number 2014/08/551). The NSW Population and Health Services Research Ethics Committee approved the analysis of cancer incidence data for all of NSW (Reference: HREC/09/CIPHS/16). All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations. 45 and Up Study participants gave written informed consent to take part in the study, including consent to follow-up through repeated data collection, linkage of their data to routinely collected population-wide health databases and publication of study data.
: Not applicable.
: KC is co-PI of an investigator-initiated trial of cervical screening, <i>Compass</i>, run by the Australian Centre for Prevention of Cervical Cancer (ACPCC), which is a government-funded not-for-profit charity; the ACPCC has received equipment and a funding contribution from Roche Molecular Diagnostics, and operational support from the Australian Government. She is also co-PI on a major investigator-initiated implementation program <i>Elimination of Cervical Cancer in the Western Pacific (ECCWP)</i> which will receive support from the Minderoo Foundation, the Frazer Family Foundation and equipment donations from Cepheid Inc. Neither Karen Canfell nor her institution on her behalf receives direct funding from industry for any project. No other conflicts of interest are declared. All other authors have no competing interests to declare.