IN REGARD to your article Cervical Tests Updated (News Shopper, March 1), my mother was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 1999. She had a hysterectomy and was given the all-clear.
She then had a smear test every year at which it always came back normal.
In December 2004 she complained of serious back pain. She went to her doctors and every time he sent her home with painkillers.
He then sent her to physiotherapy. After her third visit to the doctor she was sent to Queen Mary's Hospital where she was X-rayed.
She then had to admit herself again because of the serious pain and they found something on her spine which turned out to be cancer.
They said it had taken five years to get so far. Why was she not X-rayed as a follow up to the operation?
My mum sadly died last October aged 46.
MISS N JOHNSON
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