smear tests
"Please don’t miss your smear test. A minute of feeling awkward is nothing compared to what I’ve now had to go through."
Could at-home swab tests pave the way for better uptake in cervical screening?
The reality star urged other women to take up their appointments: "I can't stress how important it is and it really isn't bad."
In a survey, just 1% said their GP surgery provides a hoist, yet 23% said they need one to get onto the examination bed.
Two in five did not receive their results within the recommended two weeks.
"We’re really very excited by this study."
On 22 March 2009, TV personality Jade Goody died from cervical cancer. Before she died, she was a vocal campaigner for smear tests and encouraged thousands of women to go to screenings. But a decade later, the number of women going to screenings is at a 20-year-low and two women are still dying from the disease every day.
The tests have already boosted uptake in the Netherlands.
Women think HPV is 'dirty' or 'embarrassing', when it's actually extremely common.
Women have been forced to wait longer than the recommended 14 days for their results.