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Cancer misdiagnosis is a common medical error

Very frequently we are told that most cancer patents present late when the disease is too advanced to be cured.

I, however, recently met a woman in her late 50s who had been undergoing routine annual medical check ups, including screening for cervical cancer, and has had a clean bill of health as recent as October 2015 - yet here she is now, presenting with advanced cancer of the cervix.

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