Screening for cervical cancer will start to be offered by the government to women aged between 25 and 35 as from the middle of next year.

This was stated by Health Parliamentary Secretary Chris Fearne in reply to Parliamentary questions by Nationalist MP Claudio Grech.

The screening, Mr Fearne said, will involve a colposcopy and a pap smear.

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