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Kiri Allan encourages wāhine to get smear test after cancer diagnosis
5 Apr, 2021 11:19 PM
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Labour MP Kiri Allan has been diagnosed with stage three cervical cancer. PM Jacinda Ardern answered questions from the media on Tuesday morning.
Labour MP Kiri Allan has been diagnosed with stage three cervical cancer. PM Jacinda Ardern answered questions from the media on Tuesday morning.
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Conservation and Emergency Management Minister Kiritapu Allan, who is also the MP for East Coast, has gone on medical leave as she gets treatment for stage three cervical cancer.
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06/04/2021 Dr Beverly Lawton. Photo credit: RNZ/Checkpoint
Women are dying while the Government drags its feet on funding a new cervical cancer screening programme, according to a leading women s health researcher.
In a social media post she talked about taking a see no evil, hear no evil approach when it came to that part of her body and described the symptoms she had been suffering including stomach, back and leg pain and continuous bleeding.
It has prompted renewed calls for the Government to fund a self-swabbing cervical cancer programme that allows women the privacy and convenience of taking a simple test at home.