Cervical Cancer: A survivor�s tale

Friday, August 29, 2014

At the age of 32 Tonota-born Thato Odiseng had never thought she could be at risk of Cervical Cancer as she had been healthy all her life, there was no history of cancer in her family and she had followed a sexually responsible path.

Odiseng and her fiancée had followed the correct procedures after they met by both testing for HIV and other Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) before they started engaging in unprotected sex two years previously.

As far as she was concerned they were on the same page regarding sticking to only one partner but she would later find out that her fiancé did not share her idea of only one partner.

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Cervical Cancer: A survivor�s tale

At the age of 32 Tonota-born Thato Odiseng had never thought she could be at risk of Cervical Cancer as she had been healthy all her life, there was no history of cancer in her family and she had followed a sexually responsible path.