Recently diagnosed with dcis I contacted my daughter to check when she last went for a mammogram as it was she was booked in for the following week. Then I rang my sister to ask when her last one was ...
My Auntie refuses to have a colonoscopy. Every one of her four maternal aunts plus her mum had bowel cancer or polyp cells that were turning cancerous. Her two brothers and sister had bowel cancer. She is frightened of what they will find and prefers to stay ignorant.