Nicola was 33 and had recently given birth to her second child when she went for her first cervical screen since becoming a parent.
“I expected the all-clear as usual, so was surprised to receive a letter telling me I had HPV and some abnormal cells,” says Nicola, now 37. “I went for a colposcopy, which I didn’t realise was going to involve a biopsy. A month later I was called back to the hospital and told I had stage I [cervical] cancer.”
