'New cancer test makes me feel women's health matters'

A patient said she felt women's health was being taken seriously by a hospital after it began trialling a new and less invasive test for womb cancer.

Angela Ransby, 56, from Ipswich and who has had endometriosis for 20 years, recently visited Ipswich Hospital after she experienced post-menopausal bleeding.

Expecting to have tests she feared could be painful and invasive, she said she was pleasantly surprised to see the hospital trialling a new test called WID-easy, which was similar to a smear test.

The test is also being trialled at Colchester Hospital and Dr Wendy MacNab, the clinical director for gynaecology at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT), said she was delighted to know the teams were "doing good".

Ransby said her endometriosis over the years had cause