Jasmine Carter, from Hadleigh, had chemotherapy at Colchester Hospital. - Credit: Jasmine Carter Ms Carter said this was a scary time, but it was also a relief her symptoms were being taken seriously. "All of a sudden it felt very real," she said. "My results showed severe pre-cancerous cells and I was HPV positive." The following day Ms Carter had a colposcopy, which gives doctors a close-up look at the cervix. Her results were very suspicious, so she was given a biopsy to determine a diagnosis as well as an MRI and PET scan to see if the cancerous cells had spread.