‘I have cancer but I don’t want to know what stage’
Being told you’re terminal is only scary if you know how long you have left, claims mum Kathryn Simile. After all, “you could be hit by a bus tomorrow”.
Conditions
You’ve heard of endometriosis, but what do you know about endometriomas?
AKA ‘chocolate cysts’
Experts are calling for the mammogram screening age to be brought forward
What has sparked the change?
Mum’s health scare: ‘I had no symptoms, but screening saved my life’
A mother of four says her surgeon was ‘truly shocked to see a polyp so big in someone her age’ after she underwent a screening following a family member’s cancer scare.
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Woman’s cancer symptoms missed by GPs for two years
She went to the doctor over 20 times in one year, before finally being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
‘I thought I was getting man boobs … it was breast cancer’
George Lawrence-Brown thought his sore nipple was just ageing – it couldn’t be breast cancer, because men didn’t get that. Did they?
How Olivia fought cancer and rallied for medicinal cannabis
Olivia Newton-John was fearless in her public campaign of living with cancer and dedicated herself to raising awareness and funds.
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