Jade Goody ignored warnings to have cancer removed
August 26th, 2008 at 22:20 by Holly
In a near fatal case of head-in-the-sandness, Jade admits she had been for four smears that found abnormal cells and ignored a letter telling her she needed to have more cells removed in case they led to cervical cancer.
She had had cells removed after the first three abnormal smears, but she says she was too scared to go back to hospital and instead the pre-cancerous abnormal cells became full cervical cancer.
Jade, 27, is now fighting advanced cervical cancer - and will require far more intrusive treatment than the original procedure she was scared of. She’s now facing a hysterectomy.
She told Heat:
“When I heard I had more abnormal cells I thought, ‘this is the fourth time I’ve been told I need to have the same operation now,’
“Once you have them burnt off they shouldn’t come back, I was too scared.”
Jade, who has two kids from a previous relationship, collapsed at the beginning of August and was taken in for tests, the results of which showed advanced cancer.
“The doctors were doing tests for my blood loss - but they seemed unclear about what it could be. It was then that I was told I must have another operation on the dodgy cells on my cervix.
“They’d sent a letter to me ages ago telling me I needed to go in, but I’d been too scared to do anything about it.”
She’s suffered with pre-cancerous cells and their removal since she was 16, before she was sexually active.
“I had to have pre-cancerous cells removed. And that nearly traumatised me for life, it was so painful.”
She will face radiotherapy and chemotherapy after her hysterectomy.
To find out more about cervical cancer, its detection and treatment, visit Cancer Research UK.
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March 22nd, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Just bumping this article to the top, just in case Jade’s publicist chooses to bury stone cold facts under the more profitable hand-wringing.
March 22nd, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Sad to say now but it seems that the word ‘near’ can be removed from your opening sentence. Jade’s failure to attend for follow up has cost her life or at the very least shortened it dramatically.