Get Lippy! What you don‘t know about gynae cancer can hurt you
The Guilty Feminist
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How I Was Diagnosed With Cervical Cancer
I knew not a lot, and I think in hindsight that naivety was a bit of a blessing because I went into this diagnosis not knowing much. Would you have asked the same if I'd said breast, bowel, or brain? There is stigma associated with something going wrong between your legs inside your pelvis. Assumptions are made that people with learned disabilities don't have sex or women that sleep with women. It's an age-old myth that gay women don't need to have a cervical screening. Lots of people I work with aren't able to make that initial doctor's appointment for so many reasons. Not every GP surgery are equipped for their wheelchair users or can get them onto
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