Hello,
I was wondering if anyone has any experience of your cervical cancer diagnosis being missed by the screening system? Either missed altogether or caught later than early treatment / monitoring than should have realistically been the case? It’s a part of my diagnosis that I have struggled to come to terms with and I haven’t come across anyone in the same boat so sometimes feels very isolating. In my case it was missed because I was only screened for HPV (as is now the general protocol) which came back negative - but it was a “false negative.” As I wasn’t tested for abnormal cells I was just sent on my way even though I would have realistically had invasive cancer at the point of my smear test, meaning it was only found once it was a lot more advanced, via symptoms.
Interested to hear if anyone else has had any sort of similar experiences so as to hopefully feel a bit less alone with it all!
