How smear tests can SAVE US
Jan 19, 2022
4 minutes
WORDS: GILLIAN HARVEY
‘I’d had no symptoms’
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Cheryl Swann, 65, is a retired personnel and payroll manager, and lives in Coventry.
‘What does it say?’ my husband Dave asked as I frowned after reading my test results.
‘I have severe dyskaryosis – abnormal cells,’ I said. It was 17 August 2013 and I’d had a smear test 11 days previously. I had never skipped a smear, so had assumed everything would be fine. But now I needed a colposcopy to examine my cervix more closely.
Two days later, I arrived at the hospital for the procedure. Dave held my hand and the wonderful
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