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Lucy Elkins

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I was denied a vital cancer check because of a nurse’s ‘beliefs’ about my sex life – that decision changed my life for ever - Business And America

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By Lucy Elkins
| businessandamerica.com
‘Have you ever been sexually active?’ The question posed by the healthcare worker in the hospital examination room was to the point, but Sarah didn’t hesitate to answer honestly: ‘No, never.’ That answer changed not only what happened in the 26-year-old’s next few minutes, it changed the entire course of her life. Sarah was denied a vital check because she is a virgin, which meant it took another eight months before her symptoms were finally diagnosed: she had cancer, and it had spread.
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Olympian Roger Black reveals how nodding off in front of TV was warning sign he had fatal condition

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By Lucy Elkins
| Perth Now Verified
Having hit his mid-50s, former Olympic runner Roger Black thought the fact he sometimes nodded off in front of the TV in the early evening was “just a sign I was becoming an old git”. Similarly, Roger, now 58, blamed ageing for the fact that over the past couple of years he would get so tired driving back from speaking engagements, he would pull into a service station for an energy-boosting cup of coffee “every half an hour or so”.
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By Lucy Elkins
| businessandamerica.com
Why not come over for dinner and some binge drinking?’ It might not be the conventional way an invitation is worded, but the reality is that’s often what happens. People don’t like to acknowledge it, say experts, but the truth is that what many of us shrug off as ‘having a few drinks’ often falls into the binge category. That could be because we don’t really know what ‘a binge’ is – and in any event, we tell ourselves, it’s something that only younger people do.
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