Cervical Cancer Prevention: Please Sign My Petition! I’m #AtYourCervix

  Samantha Walsh, #AtYourCervix! Hello guys, I’m clocking in and reporting for duty. The mission? To Save Your Cervix! Think of me as your friendly Customer Cervix Advisor. Do you have a cervix, or know someone who does? Then in that case this petition is for you! I’m campaigning to get the wording of the […]

Cancer Isn’t Soft, So Why Is This New Approach?

Cervical Cancer Facts:– there are over 3000 new cases diagnosed in the UK annually– it is responsible for 900 UK deaths a year– cervical screening rates are in decline, with more than 1 in 3 women ignoring their letter– diagnoses of cases in women aged 25-29 are the highest since 1999; up 60% in the […]

An Evening with The Eve Appeal

My regular blog readers will know that women’s reproductive health and gynae cancers are matters close to my heart, having shared my cervical cancer experience and subsequent infertility with you here on my blog and also via the Huffington Post. So I was particularly proud and excited when the invitation to attend an event at The […]

Go For Your Smears, My Dears!

“There are different types of cells: healthy ones, slightly ugly ones…..and then there are the really dodgy-looking kind. As you have stage 3 pre-cancer, well…..yours are the type you’d cross the road to avoid…..”Oh. Rightio.My GP carried on talking, but, having dropped the C-bomb, all the other words she was saying seemed to be dissolving […]