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Medical Matters:This being European cervical cancer prevention week, it reminds me that the most aggressive cancer I have seen in practice involved Sharon, a young woman of 20 who presented with abnormal vaginal bleeding.

An internal examination revealed a growth on the cervix (the neck of the womb) and so she was urgently referred to see a gynaecologist.