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Whilst no screening programme can ever be 100% effective, the Cervical Screening Programme has been shown to reduce the incidence of cancer in a well screened population of women. For example a recent report in the Lancet journal calculated that more that 5,000 lives are being saved in Britain every year as a result of the screening programme.
