'New cancer test makes me feel women's health matters'

"A patient said she felt women's health was being taken seriously by a hospital after it began trialling a new and less invasive test for womb cancer. Angela Ransby, 56, from Ipswich and who has had endometriosis for 20 years, recently visited Ipswich Hospital after she experienced post-menopausal bleeding. Expecting to have tests she feared could be painful and invasive, she said she was pleasantly surprised to see the hospital trialling a new test called WID-easy, which was similar to a smear test."

"At the hospital, Ransby said the doctors explained they were going to offer a WID-easy test. She said she was told by the doctor: "If you'd have come in a week ago or two weeks ago, we wouldn't have been able to offer you what we can offer you now, which is this new swab." Ransby continued: "That's when she explained that Ipswich had been selected to do this kind of test... she was saying, 'This is incredible for women', and what an asset it was for Ipswich.""

"ESNEFT is the first trust in the East of England to trial the WID-easy and it can provide results within days rather than weeks. "It's not my experience to go to women's health in the NHS and Ipswich Hospital, and come out thinking, 'Bloody hell, that was good, that was even tolerable'," Ransby added. When asked if it had given her confidence that women's he"

A patient with long-term endometriosis visited Ipswich Hospital after experiencing post-menopausal bleeding. She expected painful and invasive tests but was offered a new swab-based test called WID-easy, similar to a smear test. The hospital explained that the option was newly available and that Ipswich had been selected to trial the test. The trust is the first in the East of England to trial WID-easy, with results available within days rather than weeks. The patient described the experience as tolerable and expressed that it reflected women’s health being taken seriously.

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