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Cancer Screening: What You Need To Know

This conversational-style video is designed specifically for women living with HIV, but also contains important information on cancer and cancer screening for all people living with HIV. You will learn why regular cancer screening is so important — and how you can take charge of your health with confidence.

Expert speakers from Cancer Council Victoria   and BreastScreen Victoria provide short, easy-to-understand presentations, which also includes an informative Q&A on each cancer topic:

Bowel cancer

Cervical cancer and Anal Cancer

Breast cancer

Lung cancer  (outlining the free National Lung Cancer Screening Program launched on 1 July 2025)

(video edited from a webinar recorded live on 12/8/25)

For more information:

Find a cervical screening provider

There are multiple Breast Cancer risk assessment tools available and they all take some time to complete. If you would like to complete one, you can do so prior to discussion with your doctor by entering details into iPrevent

More information regarding Breast Density 

Cancer Risk for People With HIV published by Living Positive Victoria. In this article is a video link to a presentation by HIV clinical specialist Professor Jenny Hoy on low level inflammation from the HIV reservoir and what it means for the health of people with HIV