A beauty queen is urging women to attend their smear test appointments after receiving a "worrying" letter. Miss GB contestant, Niamh Gwen, was offered a cervical cancer screening six months before her 25th birthday , but put it off for the first few months.
Realising she was being "hypocritical" as she was helping raising awareness for Cancer Research for the competition, the 25-year-old attended her GP to have the test done. READ MORE:'I just did the same Morrisons big shop from a year ago and the price rises are stark' A weeks later, she received a letter in the post to say the results were "abnormal" and that she would need screenings every six months, the ECHO reports.
The former Miss Preston said: "It took a few weeks to hear anything back and I thought 'oh, no news must be good news'. But when I opened the letter and it said the results were abnormal, I was like 'what on earth'.
I was worried. "I started looking into it myself and spoke to a few of my girlfriends, they said they had something similar and it was more common than I thought.
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