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Louise underwent chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and brachytherapy - which is internal radiation treatment.

In the study, 250 women with cervical cancer received the new treatment - an intensive six-week course of carboplatin and paclitaxel chemotherapy, followed by the "usual" treatment of radiotherapy plus weekly cisplatin and brachytherapy, known as chemoradiation.

Following her diagnosis three years later she underwent a hysterectomy as well as chemotherapy, radiotherapy and brachytherapy, when radiation is administered directly next to the tumour.

"If I'd been diagnosed sooner then I wouldn't have had to go through having radiotherapy, chemotherapy and brachytherapy. It was an awful experience."

It had been on our minds for the past three months, ever since I completed weeks of grueling rounds of chemotherapy, radiation and brachytherapy to treat my stage 2 cervical cancer.