Young mother told she was *too young* for a smear test is diagnosed with terminal cervical cancer at just 21
@A young mother has been diagnosed with terminal cervical cancer at just 21 after she was deemed too young to have a routine smear test that could have saved her life//℗
@Jade Pateman, from County Durham, is now campaigning for the cervical screening age to be lowered from 25 to 20 after being told she has between just 18 months and two years to live//℗
@After being given the devastating diagnosis in May, she believes had she been offered the test, it would have stopped the cancer spreading and saved her life//℗
@Ms Pateman,who has a two tear old son called Oscar, developed cervical cancer at the end of 2014, and began experiencing symptoms in February//℗
@Cervical cancer often has no symptoms in its early stages but the most common is irregular bleeding, in between periods, after sex or after the menopause// ℗
@She was treated with antibiotics for an inflamed cervix and when further tests came back clear she was referred to a colposcopy clinic//℗
@Cancer was then detected and scans revealed a 6cm tumour on her cervix//℗
@Tragically by June, the cancer had spread into lymph nodes in her stomach, chest and neck beyond the point where radiotherapy could help//℗
@She now receives chemotherapy to prolong her life//℗
@Ms Pateman said: *If the screening age had been 20, it is more than possible that I might have been diagnosed sooner and the cancer might not have spread//℗
@*It was strange, as when they said I only had 18 months to two years to live I didn*t get as upset as I thought I would// ℗
