You can have mammograms after 70 and why you should NOT ignore bloating and back pain: What every middle-aged woman needs to know about female cancers
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In the first part of The Mail on Sunday’s women’s health special last weekend, our world-leading experts told you everything you need to know about three of the most pressing mid-life concerns.
We tackled intimate problems – everything from dryness to unusual bleeding – the menopause and how to spot the unusual signs of a heart attack in women. Now it’s the turn of one of the most feared diseases: cancer.
When it comes to some female cancers – breast, womb, ovarian, vaginal and vulval – they are often presented on television and film as an illness that blights the lives of young mothers and wives, tragically cutting their lives short.
In fact, this couldn’t be further from the truth. Half of the 55,000 …