Increasing awareness of gynaecological cancer and early detection in young women.
Gynaecological cancers affect women and people with gynae organs at any age.
Finding cancer early is the key to improving outcomes, but awareness of these cancers is low.
The key to detecting cancer early is lifelong awareness, where people understand the signs and symptoms, are looking out for them and any changes to their body and going to medical professionals to get checked.
In this study young women at university will be given either:
- an intervention to improve their awareness
- or a control
The intervention is an online gynaecological cancer awareness film and behaviour change tool. Cancer awareness and how they plan to check themselves for any symptoms will be checked just after the video and at 6 weeks, 6 months and 12 months later.
If this project is successful, it will hopefully be rolled out in universities across the UK.
This work aims to empower young women to be aware of and seek help for symptoms of gynaecological cancer for the rest of their lives.
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