In check: Why every woman must get a cervical screening test

A routine smear test picked up Eileen Rushe's cancer when she was in her early 30s. It was a long road to recovery, says Arlene Harris.

Eileen Rushe was diagnosed with cervical cancer in her early 30s.

WHILE it is no longer the automatic death sentence it once was, cancer is still an unwelcome disease which will affect one in three of us in our lifetime.