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I thought my contraception was behind a weird symptom - actually it was cancer that rapidly kills half of all victims

A 26 year-old woman with advanced cervical cancer has warned women never to miss regular smear tests-after she mistook her symptoms for complications caused by the contraceptive coil.

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