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• Cancer >> Cervical Cancer >> Talking to doctors >> Talking to doctors

Talking to doctors

• Cancer >> Cervical Cancer >> Finding information and decision making >> Finding information and decision making

Finding information and decision making

• Cancer >> Cervical Cancer >> Ideas about causes of cervical cancer >> Ideas about causes of cervical cancer

Ideas about causes

• Cancer >> Cervical Cancer >> Cervical cancer: Symptoms and tests >> Cervical cancer: Symptoms and tests

Symptoms & tests

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Further tests

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Further tests

• Cancer >> Cervical Cancer >> Cervical cancer: Symptoms and tests >> Cervical cancer: Symptoms and tests

Symptoms & tests

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• Cancer >> Cervical Cancer >> Age 31-38 >> Interview CC08 >> Explains that she consulted her GP having noticed bleeding after sexual intercourse and he referred her quickly to a gynaecologist.

Diagnosed with cervical cancer in1996. External Radiotherapy followed by Internal Radiotherapy.

• Cancer >> Cervical Cancer >> Age 39-44 >> Interview CC13 >> She decided to go privately when her symptoms persisted and she was told there would be a long wait for her appointment to see the gynaecologist.

Diagnosed with cervical cancer (Stage 1B) in 2000. Wertheim's hysterectomy. Both ovaries and some lymph nodes removed. External Radiotherapy (30 sessions), six weeks after her hysterectomy because cancer cells were found in one lymph node.

• Cancer >> Cervical Cancer >> Age 30 & under >> Interview CC14 >> Describes how she sought further medical advice after she started having discharge as well as abnormal bleeding.

Diagnosed with advanced cervical cancer and given a poor chance of survival in 1992. External Radiotherapy followed by Internal Radiotherapy.

• Cancer >> Cervical Cancer >> Age 31-38 >> Interview CC18 >> Explains that she found it painful when her vaginal packing was removed after her cone biopsy.

Diagnosed with early stage cervical cancer in 1998. Undergoing fertility investigations at time of diagnosis. Radical Trachelectomy (first women in her region to have a Radical Trachelectomy).