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Sex Abuse Victims Less Likely To Have Smear Tests

PA | Posted 02.10.2012 | UK Lifestyle

Women who were sexually abused in childhood are less likely to attend cervical cancer screenings than other women, research suggests. The National ...

Why We Shouldn't Forget the Legacy of Jade

Shan Ellis | Posted 03.09.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Shan Ellis

My diagnosis was cervical cancer. I was 32, had a five-year-old and a one-year-old who were reliant on me. Very quickly during the following weeks I had a partial hysterectomy, and intense chemotherapy which intensified over the space of the following six months.

'Jade Goody Effect' On Cervical Cancer Awareness Wears Off

The Huffington Post UK | Kyrsty Hazell | Posted 19.03.2012 | UK Lifestyle

The spike in women having cervical smear tests following Jade Goody's death from the disease, has almost been reversed just three years after she pass...

One in Five Women Still Avoid Cervical Screening

Rachel Preece | Posted 21.02.2012 | UK
Rachel Preece

A quarter of a million women worldwide will have died of cervical cancer by the time 2011 draws to a close. That's roughly one death every two minutes. Of those, around 900 are British women - and sadly, many of these deaths could have been prevented by a simple cervical screening.

Simple HPV Screening Could Cut Number Of Smear Tests

PA | Posted 27.11.2011 | UK Lifestyle

Thousands of women every year could be spared invasive tests thanks to simple screening for the virus that causes cervical cancer. I...