Sajid Javid is looking at making the word ‘women’ feature more prominently on the NHS’s web page about ovarian cancer. The health secretary told a broadcaster ‘common sense and the right language’ should be used to ‘give people the best possible care’.
It begins: ‘Ovarian cancer affects the two small organs that store the eggs needed to make babies. Anyone with ovaries can get ovarian cancer.’
It does appear on the third section of the guidance, which reads: ‘Anyone with ovaries can get ovarian cancer.To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser thatQuestioned about reports the NHS has cut ‘women’ from advice pages, Mr Javid said: ‘I haven’t seen that particular report but I have heard of instances like that and I don’t think it’s right.‘It’s important that when messaging is given to people for cancers that words like women and men are used.
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