Mum 'too scared' to have smear test given months to live after terminal cancer diagnosis

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Tasha Doran, 40, said she avoided having a smear test because she was afraid of the result.

A mum who felt "too scared and embarrassed" to have a smear test is warning all women to have one after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.Now the mum-of-one, who is soon to be a grandmother, is warning all women to get the test after finding out her cancer is terminal.

There are around 3,200 new cervical cancer cases in the UK every year, according to Cancer Research UK, meaning around nine new cases every day. “I had pain during intercourse and heavy bleeding afterwards, I had clots, dry skin and a flakey scalp. I also had athlete's foot and was regularly applying cream, not realising the cause was that my body was so rundown by the cancer."

 

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