- Victorian woman encourages people to get pap smears through cheeky puns
- Katie Duncan said a pap smear saved her life when they caught cancer early
- The 25-year-old encouraged people to ‘care for your flower’ with the simple test
A young Victorian woman has shared an important, albeit cheeky, warning online which saved her life.
After getting her first pap-smear when she was 24, Katie Duncan said a year later she received the dreaded news.
The now 25-year-old’s life turned upside down when her first pap smear results showed she had pre-cancerous cervix cells.
Katie Duncan (pictured) shared an important, albeit cheeky, warning online after an important test saved her life
After getting her first pap-smear when she was 24, Katie Duncan said a year later she received the dreaded news that she had pre-cancerous cervix cells
The young woman said she received the ‘bloody awful news’ before her birthday and now wanted to ‘snatch’ every woman’s attention so they get their ‘lady lips looked at’ before it’s too late.
‘My lady garden is getting some extra special loving that needs to be spoken about,’ Ms Duncan wrote.
‘I c*** ovary-state how important my first pap smear was.
‘If you’re old enough to pop your cherry, you’re old enough to care for your flower.’
Ms Duncan said she was among the thousands of young girls who had the cervical cancer vaccination in high school but claims getting ‘the jab’ doesn’t mean women should ‘avoid their smear’.
‘Ladies, the moral of this story is don’t be a p***y and get yo’ pap smear. Period,’ she wrote on the post which received thousands of views.
New cervical screening tests mean women do not need to be 25-years-old until they get a pap smear, unlike the old guidelines which recommended women were tested at 18.
The Victoirian said she received the ‘bloody awful news’ before her birthday and now wanted to ‘snatch’ every woman’s attention so they get their ‘lady lips looked at’ before it’s too late
Traditional pap smears will be phased out and replaced with the new Human Papilloma Virus test – a virus which causes about 99 per cent of cervical cancers.
The new tests are able to detect cancer earlier and will only need to be taken every five years, instead of every two years like the older test.
‘Lie down, put your legs up and do it,’ Ms Duncan encouraged.