Dr Amir Khan

Yes.

It's like the entry point to your womb.

Obviously, we want everyone to go for their cervical screening.

And I know we're going to talk about that in more detail later on.

Cervical cancer often is bleeding is what we're looking out for.

So post-coital bleeding, which is bleeding after sex, often that is a sexually transmitted illness.

But we want to make sure it's not your...

your cervix bleeding in between your periods again any unusual pain in that area is usually a late sign we want to get it before before that the the the two ways we really pick up cervical cancer is is either abnormal bleeding or when we're looking at your cervix often you know through a smear or any other test and we put the speculum up and we see an abnormal looking cervix

The cervix should be a nice, healthy, light pinkish colour, smooth with that little dot in the middle.

But I have seen cervical cancer when I've done a speculum examination and the cervix looks very abnormal.

So depending on the stage, it can be it's very rough or almost craggy.

And so that really worries me.

And I would always what we call fast track those patients.

Not really, no.

You generally don't, unless it's spread or got very, very big.

And I guess the other thing, just to say, you know, lumps in your groin could be lymph nodes that are reacting to the cancer in a pelvis.

So any lumps in your groin, you should get checked as well.

Yeah, lots of people don't know that they can get vaginal cancer.

So the vagina is just the corridor almost leading up to your cervix from your vulva, right?

I don't know how best to describe it.