‘I was told that I was too young for womb cancer’
Gemma reflects on how tracking her periods helped her monitor changes and get help.
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‘We are own best advocates and instinctively know when something needs to be followed up.’
In this blog, Celeste shares her experience of getting diagnosed with a rare womb cancer and highlights the importance of knowing your normal.
‘My campaign makes it all worthwhile if it means someone gets an early diagnosis’
Fay shares her story of getting diagnosed with stage 3 womb cancer, and how her diagnosis led her to start campaigning for gynae cancer awareness.
‘Finding out you carry these alterations comes with its own grief and big decisions that need to be made’
In this blog, Carly shares her story of having a BRCA gene alteration, and both her and her sister’s cancer journeys.
Rachel’s poem: ‘A woman’s journey’
In this blog, Rachel shares a reflective poem she wrote about her experiences as a woman, her gynae health and her recent diagnosis of a rare gynae cancer, vaginal non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
‘Grieving the loss of an ovary’
Izy shares her story of her diagnosis and journey with a borderline ovarian tumour.
‘Waiting two years for surgery for a pre-cancerous condition is not a wait any woman should endure.’
Sharon writes about her journey with endometrial hyperplasia, a pre-cancerous condition in the womb, in North Ireland.
The life-giving, life-saving procedure
Claire tells her story of finding out she had a BRCA alteration and having her ovaries removed whilst having a caesarean.
‘If I had known the dangers of bloating and not dismissed it as ‘normal’ I might not have needed such major surgery’
Pip shares her experience of bloating, having an ovarian cyst, and advocates for the importance of knowing your normal and spotting when something isn’t right.
“We are encouraged to check our breasts so why not our vaginas?”
In this blog, Helen talks though her vaginal cancer diagnosis this year, her treatment and her recovery.
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