Star date: 28th August 2016

ONE OF THE MOST COMMON CANCERS – THAT FEW HAVE HEARD OF

Womb Cancer Support Awareness Day
Saturday 17th September 10am-4pm
Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester

This year around 12,000 women will be diagnosed with womb cancer. It's the fourth most common cancer in women and the most common gynaecological cancer....

"Every lady will tell you it's one of the most common cancers that no one knows about" says Salford's Noreen Bailey, who is joining the Womb Cancer Support Awareness Day in Piccadilly Gardens on 17th September.

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Last year, Noreen Bailey, a Salford mum, was diagnosed with endometrial cancer, also known as womb cancer. Before it became apparent, Noreen, like most women, had barely heard of the disease.

Womb cancer is increasing at a rate of around ten per cent a year, and it's estimated that 12,000 women will be diagnosed in 2016. Womb cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women, and is the most common gynaecological cancer.

"Every lady will tell you it's one of the most common cancers that no one knows about" says Noreen "There are a lot of young women being totally ignored and are being diagnosed when they are in the later stages of this horrid disease. Also, it's always been said that it only larger ladies who get it but we have on our group slim ladies, larger ladies and in the middle ladies as well."

Fortunately, Noreen's doctors diagnosed the cancer in time but she now belongs to the Womb Cancer Support UK group, or WCSUK, and is joining a day of action on Saturday 17th September at Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester to raise awareness of the disease.

"I was one of the lucky ones" she explains "I was diagnosed early but it was just by luck that I did. I am 68, just started bleeding and I really knew this was not normal so I went straight to A& E where I had lots of tests. Just four weeks later I had been admitted under the oncology team.

"I was operated on and thankfully was told that they had caught my cancer in its early stages, so I just have to have six monthly check ups for the next five years" she adds "My message to ladies is `Please don't let age or size put you off going to the doctors'..."

There is lots of support and awareness raising going on around the disease. Womb Cancer UK has a website http://wombcancersupportuk.weebly.com/, with private chat room support, while it's also got a `Give Womb Cancer A Voice' Thunderclap campaign running at the moment – click here. And then, in a couple of weeks, women, including Noreen, will be taking to the streets to make even more women aware of `the most common cancers that no one knows about'...

Womb Cancer Support Awareness Day
Saturday 17th September 10am-4pm
Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester

For more detail see the Facebook event page WCSUK Manchester womb cancer awareness day – click here