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Smear test: Woman slams 16 week wait for results in NI

"The delay could mean any woman who finds out she has cells that could become cancerous has to wait so long to find out, never mind get treatment. It’s just not good enough"

Belfast Live

Oral sex is now the leading risk factor for throat cancer

Over the past two decades, there has been a rapid increase in throat cancer in the west, to the extent that some have called it an epidemic. This has been due to a large rise in a specific type of throat cancer called oropharyngeal cancer (the area of the tonsils…

The Conversation

Sky Sports presenter Jo Wilson cancer free eight months after diagnosis

Jo Wilson was diagnosed with stage 3 cervical cancer less than a year ago, but the Sky Sports presenter is now cancer free after scans revealed the incredible result this week

Daily Mirror

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For uninsured people with cancer, securing care can be like spinning a roulette wheel

Eighteen months after April Adcox learned she had skin cancer, she finally returned to Charleston’s Medical University of South Carolina last May to seek treatment.

Tribune News Service

California bill would mandate HPV vaccine for incoming college students

When she was a college freshman, Joslyn Chaiprasert-Paguio was told by a doctor she had a common sexually transmitted infection called the human papillomavirus but not to worry. Four years later, a few days before her wedding, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer, which caused complications when she became pregnant.…

Tribune News Service

‘Time we put an end to it’: the Bangladeshi women fighting their silent killer

A group of Bangladesh’s health workers are working to reach women in some of the country’s most isolated places, to fight back against stigma of cervical cancer

The Guardian - UK

When cancer meets lack of insurance

“It is very random — that’s, I think, the heartbreaking part about it."

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Cervical cancer can be beaten - the key is vaccinating young girls

In 2020 the World Health Organization introduced a plan to eliminate cervical cancer as a public health threat by 2030. The first step towards this goal is to have 90% of girls fully vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV) by the age of 15 years. Gynaecological oncologist Lynette Denny spells out…

The Conversation

'I need to raise €80,000 to have a baby after devastating cancer diagnosis'

Amy Kinsella always wanted to have a family of her own but her plans to become pregnant were thwarted after she was diagnosed with cervical cancer last summer

Dublin Live

Patients with incurable cervical cancer to be offered life-extending drug

Clinical trials suggest the drug could give patients eight more months to live on average

The Independent UK

New drug to give eight more months to patients with incurable cervical cancer

Keytruda, an immunotherapy drug manufactured by Merck Sharp and Dohme (MSD), is the first new treatment in 14 years

Wales Online

Women in England with advanced cervical cancer to be offered new treatment

Immunotherapy drug will be available for incurable forms of disease on NHS after approval

The Guardian - UK

Aussies help PNG women get life-saving cancer treatment

Thousands of Papua New Guinean women will have access to cervical cancer screening under a program supported by an Australian philanthropist group.

AAP

Patients with incurable cervical cancer to be offered new drug

It is the first new treatment in 14 years approved to treat advanced cervical cancer.

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Irish Mirror

Jade Goody's now adult sons take part in walk to mark 14th anniversary of Big Brother star's death

Jade was 27 when sadly died from cervical cancer in March 2009

Daily Mirror

Bobby and Freddie Brazier honour their mum Jade Goody with reflective walk through London

Big Brother star Jade Goody died from cervical cancer in March 2009 and 14 years on from her death, sons Freddie and Bobby Brazier took some time out to commemorate the day

Evening Standard

EastEnders star Bobby Brazier pays tribute to mother Jade Goody after saying he ‘does not miss her’

The 19-year-old was just five when the former Big Brother star died from cervical cancer in 2009

Daily Mirror

Where are Jade Goody's loved ones now? Rarely seen mum, husband's new life and famous kids

Jade Goody shot to fame as the bubbly blonde from Bermondsey in Big Brother in 2002 before tragically losing her battle with cervical cancer in 2009 aged 27

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The Independent UK

Jade Goody’s son Bobby Brazier says he only knows his mother ‘through other people’s memories’

‘EastEnders’ actor was five years old when Goody died from cervical cancer

Daily Mirror

Jade Goody's son Bobby Brazier opens up about his late mother following her tragic death

The son of Big Brother star Jade Goody, Bobby Brazier, was only five when the mum-of-two tragically died of cervical cancer in 2009, aged 27

Bangkok Post

HPV DNA Self-Sampling Test kit unveiled

Thailand’s concerned private and public sectors are accelerating their efforts to help women avoid cervical cancer, or at least avoid its worst consequences.

Daily Record

Scots mum describes 'survivor's guilt' after husband died of cancer while she received treatment

Shona MacLaren was under treatment for cervical cancer when her husband Will MacLaren was diagnosed with the disease. He died on September 1, 2022.

Daily Record

Pregnant Scots mum has to give birth early after shock cervical cancer diagnosis

Charlotte Hutchinson, 29, was pregnant with her daughter Ariella Burns when she began suffering from minor bleeding.

Glasgow Live

Bearsden mum had cervical cancer while pregnant and told she can't have more children

Charlotte Hutchinson was referred to a gynaecologist during her pregnancy after experiencing bleeding and had to give birth to her daughter Ariella Burns a month early due to her condition.

Leeds Live

Leeds women told to stop being a wuss and to get their smear tests

'I was 22 when I was diagnosed with cervical cancer and had a year to live, but thanks to the smear I am a 53-year-old survivor'

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