Now, the number of screenings has reached a year low. W hen the letter arrives informing me that I am due a smear test, as it does every three years for women aged 25 to 49, I do what many women do: I recycle it. There will be a reminder. I know I am not alone in this, because the latest figures from NHS Digital show that the number of smear tests being carried out in England has reached a year low.
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Already subscribed? Log in. However, within days, I was called to go to colposcopy. This is when the worry set in. A few days after that, the nurse called me back. She asked me to bring somebody with me. I waited for the doctor to leave the room and then I just broke down. Who would look after my boys if I was gone? The next few months were a total blur. I was diagnosed with stage 2 cervical cancer and needed a hysterectomy to treat it.
I was only The cancer had also spread to my lymph nodes in my groin, so I also had chemotherapy and radiotherapy which were incredibly difficult.
I got the all clear in after five years of check-ups. I have been left with lymphedema in my lower body as well as bowel problems that may never go away. Following her terminal diagnosis less than six months after she left India, there was a significant increase in the number of women who underwent cervical cancer screenings. They say the uptake in screenings led to significantly more diagnoses of early cervical cancer, saving many lives.
Attendance for cervical cancer screenings had been at a low before this tragic event. In only 54 women under the age of 25 died from cervical cancer. In people died from cervical cancer in England. Symptoms of cervical cancer at a young age could include abnormal bleeding such as during the menstrual cycle and after sex and abnormal discharge.
According to BBC News reports from the time, Jade — who was just 23 at the time — was taken to hospital after collapsing on set. She went through a series of tests and stayed overnight in hospital as a precaution. Her spokesperson also had to dispel myths that Jade was pregnant at the time with her second child. After being rushed to hospital with stomach pains for the second time in two years, Jade was tested for ovarian cancer and bowel cancer. But she got the all clear. Jade and boyfriend Jack Tweed announced Jade was pregnant.
But she had a miscarriage at weeks. Jade said she was losing blood when she went to the toilet — but doctors said she had had another miscarriage. It was like tar. Just one month before this, Jade had collapsed and was bleeding heavily for the fourth time in four years. There was blood all over my bathroom and all over my stairs.
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