ASCCP Practice Advisory: Anal Cancer Screening
The International Anal Neoplasia Society (IANS) published the first comprehensive anal cancer screening guidelines in January 2024.1 Subsequently, the first US guidelines for anal cancer screening in persons with HIV developed by a panel of experts and co-sponsored by The Office of AIDS Research (OAR) in the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (HIVMA/IDSA) were published in July 2024 in the Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in Adults and Adolescents with HIV.2