You've heard the stats, but somehow you never quite believe it'll happen to you. Despite that, 150 women in the UK are diagnosed with breast cancer every single day. That equates to about one person every ten minutes - it's a
Provided you’re registered with the NHS, any woman between 50 and 70 years old should receive a letter from their GP for breast cancer screening. The painless X-ray procedure can detect breast cancer at a very early stage, Dr Uju said. Referring to women of any age, she added: “If ...
which can be seen during an examination) can be observed as early as four weeks of pregnancy but, unless you are regularly looking at your vulva, you may not be aware of it as it won’t feel any different. Although many women experience this change in colouration...
In 2015, Cancer Research UK recorded over 50,000 cases of breast cancer, making it the most common form of cancer in the UK. While it is most common in women, it’s not uncommon for men to be diagnosed with breast cancer, too. If spotted early, breast cancer can be prevented from s...
Not recognising a symptom as suspicious is a common reason given by cancer patients for delayed help-seeking; but inevitably this is retrospective. We therefore investigated associations between recognition of warning signs for breast, colorectal and lun
Five categories of cases were included: current cancer-containing mammograms, current mammograms of the normal breast contralateral to the cancer, prior mammograms of normal cases, prior mammograms with visible cancer signs in a breast from women who were initially reported as normal, but later ...