"I'd only just woken up from a procedure, and the surgeon came in and said he needed to talk to me," Beaumont told Lynch. The solo mum was diagnosed with stage four cervical cancer. Cancer in NZIn New Zealand, about 150 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year according to the Cancer Society. Without cervical screening, about one out of 90 women will develop cervical cancer and one out of 200 will die from it. With cervical screening, about one out of 570 will develop cervical cancer and one out of 1280 will die from it.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 05, 2020 05:26 UTC