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Health leader baffled over Government response to cervical cancer

06/04/2021 Dr Beverly Lawton. Photo credit: RNZ/Checkpoint Women are dying while the Government drags its feet on funding a new cervical cancer screening programme, according to a leading women s health researcher. In a social media post she talked about taking a see no evil, hear no evil approach when it came to that part of her body and described the symptoms she had been suffering including stomach, back and leg pain and continuous bleeding. It has prompted renewed calls for the Government to fund a self-swabbing cervical cancer programme that allows women the privacy and convenience of taking a simple test at home.

Apology meaningless without action, bowel cancer patient says

LOUISA STEYL/STUFF Paul Cosgrove believes he could have been treated if his bowel cancer was detected earlier. He doesn t want anyone else to struggle to access a colonoscopy. The Southern District Health Board has publicly apologised for its colonoscopy service delivery failures and committed to fixing it, but patients say they want to know how things will change. Wanaka grandfather Paul Cosgrove has made peace with the fact that he’s living on borrowed time He knows that if his bowel cancer had been detected earlier, it could have been treated. Cosgrove feels let down by the Southern District Health Board.

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