Health anxiety, often referred to as hypochondria, is a distressing and often debilitating condition where a person is preoccupied with the belief that they have, or are in imminent danger of contracting, a serious illness. Thisanxietypersists despite medical reassurance and can significantly impact d...
But then the difficult thing that happened at the same time, when I was in the edit forMissed Call, was that I got a breast cancer diagnosis out of the blue. I didn't have any symptoms, so it was just picked up with a mammogram. I have an amazing friend and executive producer, De...
Her journey from GP to the RAH for a mammogram, scans and a biopsy was only three weeks.Alison, who is married to Michael and has a son also Michael, 24, added: "I got chemo first in the March to shrink it, then I had a lumpectomy and radiotherapy."Mother-of-two Elspeth was ...
Midlife women (45–64 years) with no previous or current breast cancer diagnosis were considered eligible to enable an understanding on women’s differing perspectives on candidacy. Sampling was purposive to obtain variability in social class, screening status (screeners, non-screeners, irregular scre...