{"id":50612,"date":"2025-03-18T10:13:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T10:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=50612"},"modified":"2025-03-18T10:18:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T10:18:30","slug":"summary-of-australian-guidelines-for-anal-cancer-screening-in-people-living-with-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/50612","title":{"rendered":"Summary of Australian guidelines for anal cancer screening in people living with HIV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ASHM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ASHM launches Australia&#8217;s first anal cancer screening guidelines for people living with HIV.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The guidelines provide a critical framework around screening and treatment for healthcare providers.<\/p>\n<p>All anal cancer screening should include annual digital ano-rectal examination (DARE), examination of the peri-anal region and a thorough medical history.<\/p>\n<p>The history should:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Include sexual behavioural history, as anal sexual activity may not have been previously disclosed.<\/li>\n<li><span>Identify other potential risk activities (such as smoking) and other factors that may contribute to immunosuppression (such as certain drugs)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Identify other potential risk activities (such as smoking) and other factors that may contribute to immunosuppression (such as certain drugs)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reference<\/p>\n<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Summary of Australian recommendations for anal cancer screening in PLHIV (January 2025)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/analcancerscreening.guidelines.org.au\/\">analcancerscreening.guidelines.org.au\/<\/a> (webpage)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/analcancerscreening.guidelines.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Summary-page-Anal-Cancer-Testing-Tool-Summary.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">analcancerscreening.guidelines.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Summary-page-Anal-Cancer-Testing-Tool-Summary.pdf<\/a> (direct download)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASHM ASHM launches Australia&#8217;s first anal cancer screening guidelines for people living with HIV.\u00a0 The guidelines provide a critical framework around screening and treatment for healthcare providers. All anal cancer screening should include annual digital ano-rectal examination (DARE), examination of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guidelines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50612"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50616,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50612\/revisions\/50616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}