Also called Pap test. This test has been replaced by a Cervical Screening Test.

An organ in your belly, towards your back. The pancreas helps digest food and controls blood sugar levels.

Part of a woman’s reproductive system that produces eggs and hormones. There are two ovaries, one on either side of the womb (uterus). They are connected to the womb by tubes called the fallopian tubes.

A doctor who specialises in the study and treatment of cancer.

The main female sex hormone produced mostly by the ovaries. Oestrogen regulates the menstrual cycle and prepares the breasts for milk production.

Help you overcome physical problems or barriers using equipment or activities.

The process of eating and digesting the necessary food the body needs.

See 'lymph nodes'.

A method of diagnostic imaging that uses very small amounts of radioactive material. The patient is injected with a liquid that contains the radioactive substance, which collects in the part of the body to be imaged. Sophisticated instruments detect the radioactive substance in the body and process that information into an image.

Feeling sick or wanting to be sick.