Aimee Willett, 26, was diagnosed with cervical cancer at her first smear test
Is now calling for the national smear test age to be lowered from 25
Health officials say screening women under 25 does 'more harm than good'
Miss Willett has now made a bucket list of the things she wants to do
Plans to marry her boyfriend and give her boys the best Christmas ever
Is now calling for the national smear test age to be lowered from 25
Health officials say screening women under 25 does 'more harm than good'
Miss Willett has now made a bucket list of the things she wants to do
Plans to marry her boyfriend and give her boys the best Christmas ever
A
mother-of-two with terminal cancer is spending her last months
campaigning to lower the national smear test age after her first
examination at 25 found she had cancer.
Aimee Willett is facing what she fears will be her last Christmas with sons Charlie and Kaleb and fiance Michael Bond.
The 26-year-old went for her first smear test last December, after turning 25 - the age at which NHS screening currently starts.
The results changed Miss Willett's life.
Doctors
gave her the devastating news that she had cancerous cells. In June she
faced a second blow, as experts said another, inoperable tumour had
been found.
Aimee Willett, 26 (centre) is facing a
heartbreaking Christmas with her two young sons Charlie, eight (right)
and Kaleb, three (left) after her first smear test at 25 found incurable
cancer
Miss
Willett (left) is now calling for the national smear test age to be
lowered. She has made a bucket list of things she wants to do before she
dies, including taking her boys (right) to Disneyland Paris
Her cancer was diagnosed as terminal when the original tumour in her cervix spread to other areas of her body.
She was working as a waitress, but was forced to give up work when she fell ill.
She has now undergone surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy but has been warned she is unlikely to survive until 2016.
She said her case highlights the need for the national smear test age to be lowered.
But the Government said screening women under the age of 25 can do more harm than good.
She said: 'I am bitter about it and I would like to see the age lowered.
'I think 25 is too old - especially if a girl has had a child at a young age.
'The biggest thing for me now is for people to be more aware.
'If
you experience anything that's not normal, go to your doctor and get it
checked out and when you get a letter asking you to go for a smear test
make an appointment straight away and keep it.
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