Here is where you'll find all the latest updates from The Eve Appeal; from research updates within the national media, awareness and fundraising campaigns, as well as stories of our amazing supporters, both in national and regional media.
Eve Appeal funded researchers at Barts Cancer Institute estimate that around 83,000 cancers could be prevented if all women over 30 were screened for the BRCA gene mutation, which puts women at higher risk of breast and ovarian cancers.
Research funded by The Eve Appeal and conducted by Dr Ranjit Manchanda at Queen Mary Hospital has shown that testing all women for the "Angelina Jolie gene", even if not considered at risk, would prevent cancers, save lives and is cost effective.
With the seeming endless amount of sex advice out there in books, articles, and on the Internet, you would think that "know where the vagina is" would be near the top of the advice list for heterosexual men. Conducted by The Eve Appeal, a survey of 2,000 adults in the United Kingdom revealed that 50% of men couldn't identify the vagina on an anatomical diagram.
Survey results show shockingly low levels of awareness about the symptoms of gynaecological cancer among both men and women.
For too many men, women’s bodies are still a taboo subject, ‘shrouded in mystery’. Half of those surveyed said they would not be comfortable discussing gynaecological issues with a female partner.
Today in slightly worrying news for our current sexual education curriculum, a poll has found that half of men can’t point to where the vagina is on a human body.
Vaishali Bamania, of Preston, was diagnosed after years of irregular periods - here she shares her story for Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month
Ask Eve's gynae cancer nurse, Tracie, explains to Female First some of the ways in which you can support a partner or loved one who has been diagnosed with gynae cancer.
Vulval cancer affects more than 1,300 people in the UK every year, but few people know the symptoms of the condition or what the risk factors of the conditions are; with The Eve Appeal quoted in reference to their study which highlighted women were unable to label a vulva on an anatomical diagram.
Ask Eve's Information Officer, Karen Hobbs shares her experience of being diagnosed with cervical cancer at 24; whilst Ask Eve Information Nurse, Tracie Miles talks to The Independent about how a diagnosis is made and how it can be difficult due to the vague symptoms and associations with other conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome.
