31 h. ago ‘I wasn’t terrified of dying, but I didn’t want to leave my kids’: Davina McCall on addiction, reality TV and the brain tumour that nearly killed her

When the TV presenter was offered a free health screening, she thought it was pointless: she was ‘the healthiest woman you’ve ever met’. But then came the shocking diagnosis. Now fully recovered, she’s re‑evaluating everythingIt all starts with the coil. Of course it does. This is Davina, and Davina McCall doesn’t do personal by halves. “I loved the coil, but people always used to go, ‘I’m not getting the coil, ugh.’ I always wondered why it wasn’t more popular.” So, it was June 2023 and McCall was getting her preferred method of contraception replaced – on TV, naturally, for a documentary. “I asked my children’s permission. ‘Can Mummy get her coil refitted on television?’ They all rolled their eyes, like: ‘God! Here she goes again.’”Post-fitting, her friend Dame Lesley Regan, a gynaecologist, suggested that McCall have a health screening at the state-of-the-art women’s health clinic where she worked, in exchange for a talk she would give on menopause. To be honest, McCall says, she...

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4 d. ago Coleen Rooney unbuttons her jeans as she flashes her stomach after leaving Indian restaurant with husband Wayne during lunch outing in Manchester

Coleen Rooney was spotted leaving an Indian restaurant with unbuttoned blue jeans with her husband Wayne in Manchester on Tuesday.

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5 d. ago 'Chat GPT told me to come to A&E and it's a good job it did'

When a woman used Chat GPT to diagnose herself after she sustained an injury, she headed to A&E but was wondering whether she should be there - but doctors reassured her she'd done the right thing

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1 week ago Ovarian cancer blood test can detect disease early, study suggests

Test that uses machine learning to find signs of the disease in blood could significantly improve patient outcomesScientists have developed a simple blood test to spot ovarian cancer early that could “significantly improve” outcomes for women with the disease.More than 300,000 women, mostly over the age of 50, are diagnosed worldwide each year, according to the World Cancer Research Fund. Ovarian cancer is often diagnosed late, which makes treating the condition more difficult. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Woman 'saw rainbows' and 'forgot' she was a mum before 'destroying diagnosis'

Clare Smerdon was given the news soon after her son's first birthday

Politics

3 w. ago Woman, 25, has itchy legs and is mortified by 'OAP diagnosis'

Cat Sims, 44, admitted her legs have always been achy, heavy and uncomfortable but the last thing she expected after some tests was a diagnosis way beyond her years

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3 w. ago Woman, 25, left mortified by 'OAP diagnosis' made worse in summer

EXCLUSIVE: Whenever summer would come around, Cat Sims knew she'd be uncomfortable - it was the season that aggravated her legs even more than usual, but she didn't expect her official diagnosis

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3 w. ago Woman diagnosed with same cancer as late husband after stomach ache

Ann Lally and her late husband, Mike, were both diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer

Science

3 w. ago Strictly Come Dancing star opens up on 'tough' grief 'I don't want to get over it'

Strictly Come Dancing contestant Annabel Croft lost her husband of 30 years to stomach cancer back in 2023.

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3 w. ago 'I didn’t have symptoms other than a tummy ache, so to be told I had same cancer as my late husband was shocking and devastating'

Ann Lally, 70, was diagnosed with the same cancer as her late husband

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3 w. ago Woman diagnosed with same cancer as late husband given six months

Ann Lally was diagnosed just a few months after her husband, Mike

Science

3 w. ago Woman's 'devastating' cancer diagnosis after ignoring fatigue on Scots holiday

Susan Connarty, 60, from Edinburgh, believed the tiredness she felt on a summer holiday was nothing more than normal fatigue.

Science

3 w. ago Woman diagnosed with stage 4 cancer after ignoring four symptoms for a year

One woman said she felt a "constant pressure" on her chest and was coughing, but she dismissed the signs and even blamed them on anxiety before she was given a horror diagnosis

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