A woman died after wrongly being excluded from screenings
at Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust, urged women to educate themselves on cervical cancer and the smear test process as part of national cervical cancer awareness week.
– where the cervix is removed which nullifies the need for further screening – when, in fact, the patients had received a “sub-total” operation, leaving the cervix or part of it behind.
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