BREAST SCREENING AND CERVICAL SCREENING

BREAST SCREENING:

The NHS offers screening to save lives from breast cancer. Screening does this by finding breast cancers at an early stage when they are too small to see or feel. Screening does not prevent you from getting breast cancer. Breast screening does have some risks. Some women who have screening will be diagnosed and treated for breast cancer that would never otherwise have been found or caused them harm.

For more information please view the following information:

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Breast screening (mammogram) – NHS (www.nhs.uk)

NHS breast screening: helping you decide – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

CERVICAL SCREENING 

Cervical screening (a smear test) checks the health of your cervix. The cervix is the opening to your womb from your vagina. It’s not a test for cancer, it’s a test to help prevent cancer.

For more information please view the following information

Cervical screening – NHS (www.nhs.uk)

Cervical screening: programme overview – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)