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Chapter 1: What are the five gynaecological cancers every woman should know?
Too many gynecological cancers are discovered in A&E when it's too late. Three weeks is the absolute limit. I so often put off my cervical screenings because I really don't like having them. But then I have them and I remember that they're totally fine.
That causes over 99% of cervical cancer. If you've got unexplained for three weeks or more, get that checked. It could be frothy, it could be thin. Like if it's new and unusual for you, we want to see you.
Welcome to No Appointment Necessary. I'm good old Cherry Healy.
And I am Dr. Amir Khan. I'm usually at my surgery in Bradford, but once a week I come down here to hang out with Cherry and to record this podcast.
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Something a little bit different for this week's check-in because May is Get Lippy Month. So the Eve Appeal, which is an amazing gynaecological cancer charity, they have an annual campaign to get people talking openly about gynaecological health. And you know what I always say, be that girl or woman, who knows the five gynaecological cancers and knows the symptoms.
You only need one person in your gang who's like, hang on a second, you need to be a bit Miss Marple-y. Every girl gang needs a Miss Marple. You could be that girl.
Are you that girl, Charlie?
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Chapter 2: What are the common symptoms of ovarian cancer?
What would that discharge look like? It can be anything. It could be white. It could be pink. It could be frothy. It could be thin. Any new discharge. Don't worry about what it looks like. If it's new and unusual for you, we want to see you.
What about cervical cancer?
So cervical cancer...
most women are familiar with.
Yes, because that can happen to younger women as well as older women. Okay, so first of all, the cervix is just the bottom of your womb. It's where your womb comes together and closes off at the bottom and it's found at the bottom of your wound or the top of the vagina. So however way you want to describe it.
It's almost like a little circular donut of muscle.
Yeah, that's right. That's exactly what it is. 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
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Chapter 3: How can you identify symptoms of womb cancer?
Now, it's not as easy because you can't just get your hand and have a feel. You've got to have a look when it comes to your vulva. And remember, your vulva goes all the way around to your bottom, your anus. Right.
And there's no amount of yoga poses that can get you there.
No, no, no. So you do need either a handheld mirror that you can maneuver around to have a look, or you can put a bigger mirror on the floor and just have a look kind of from a bird's eye view. But the key thing is knowing what's normal for you and knowing what your skin around your vulva looks like and getting any changes or abnormalities checked.
Now, I listed a whole thing of abnormalities and it's the same thing. Anything white, anything red, anything shiny, anything matte, anything bleeding, anything not bleeding, anything ulcerated, anything brown, black, whatever. If it's new and it hasn't been there before... and you haven't had it forever, then if it's changed, then you need to get it checked.
So once a month, alongside your boobie examination, check your vulva as well.
We should all have it in our diaries on the same day so that we know that collectively everywhere at this time, on this day, we're all doing that. Just for laughs.
Do not disturb.
Just to make it jolly. Be like, you know what time it is. It's vulva o'clock. It's vulva o'clock. You can hear all the mirrors being taken down.
Yeah.
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Chapter 4: What signs indicate the presence of cervical cancer?
Well, now we all know what bilateral is.
I can't, I genuinely, HRT might help. It might help. So Louise, if you haven't tried HRT and the tinnitus is really getting to you and you can have HRT, then give it a go because the oestrogen will help with your hearing. I'm not saying it will cure the tinnitus, but it may help.
But when we talk about the treatment of tinnitus in primary care as GPs, or even when I refer people to the hospital, a lot of it is distraction. So because it's really easy to focus in on tinnitus, particularly when you're in bed at night and it's all you can hear. So it's things like white noise, getting something that plays white noise in the background.
So you're not so focused in on it, but we really don't have a cure. And anything on the internet that says it's a cure is probably not a cure because if there was evidence for it, we would be doing it in the NHS. Absolutely. So I can say probably not. So I'm sorry.
So try oestrogen. If it's in one ear, go and get it checked out. And hopefully those will help.
But if it is, because most people at night is when it really gets to them. And you can buy white noise machines from online anywhere. And it won't cure it, but it will help distract you so you're not so focused on it.
All right, Louise, we really hope that one of those things works and helps. Thank you so much. All right, that is very sadly all we've got time for. Please join our Facebook group. It's just an amazing, amazing growing community. If you're watching on YouTube, please subscribe. And Spotify, Apple, yes, subscribe. Follow so you don't miss an episode.
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