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Susanna Reid has admitted that her mammography checkup was a’slightly unpleasant’ experience.
The 52-year-old informed Good Morning Britain viewers and co-host Ed Balls after Sarah Ferguson’s breast cancer diagnosis served as a ‘wake-up call’ for her to schedule an appointment earlier this year.
She recalled overcoming various practical’hurdles’ to make her appointment in June, after eventually ‘getting around to it’.
She has since provided an update on her experience.
Susanna began on Tuesday’s GMB: ‘I was really resistant to it, and then there was a big row about the fact that some health authorities weren’t sending out regular reminders.
‘I remembered that there had been a letter somewhere in the in-tray, so I did it.’
‘It was slightly stressful,’ she went on to explain.
‘Because our lovely editor Daniel drove me there, and then I left my mobile phone in the car, and then I felt stressed because I didn’t have my mobile phone, and then I had to go up to someone else in the waiting room to ask them if I could possibly send an email from their mobile phone to the programme secretary to see if she could then contact… this is going on for far too long.’
Cutting her ‘stressful’ story short, Susanna added: ‘Anyway, the point was I was completely distracted.’
She went on: ‘I went in, and the nurse was absolutely lovely, and it wasn’t in the least bit painful or uncomfortable.
‘I was expecting it to be far, far worse.’
‘So if you have been putting it off for that reason, please don’t. Go and get your mammogram done,’ she urged.
Susanna’s findings were thankfully received within a few weeks, and she was given the ‘all clear’.
‘So don’t have to worry about that for another few years.’
This comes after Susanna stated earlier this year that she had not yet scheduled an appointment since the Duchess of York’s illness served as a “wake up call.”
Susanna had said: ‘This morning we want to send our best wishes to the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, because she has revealed – this has come as quite a shock – that she’s undergone surgery because of breast cancer.’
‘It was a routine mammogram on a Tuesday two weeks ago, she said on her podcast. She’s now out of surgery, but that’s remarkably fast, isn’t it? Two weeks ago she had the mammogram, she said she was reluctant to go, it’s been very hot weather, it was a bit of an inconvenience, her sister said, “You have to go.”
‘I think the reason that she’s open about this is she wants this to be a wake-up call to people.’
She continued: ‘I hadn’t realised, that there was a change in policy and screening, around seven months ago, back in September, where appointments used to be sent out for mammograms, now it’s an invitation, apparently, to make an appointment.
‘As a result, around, just in London, 12,000 women are estimated to have missed out on breast screenings because of that new open invitations system.
‘Now, I received one of those letters, an invitation to go. And, of course, what have I done? Absolutely nothing. I haven’t booked in a mammogram. And I’m 52.’
‘I absolutely should take that up,’ she declared, with co-host Ed agreeing: ‘You should go.’
‘I think there will be a lot of women this morning, finding out what has happened to Sarah Ferguson, feeling the same way I did – there isn’t really a firm appointment, I haven’t got time to make one, who will be thinking differently.’
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV1.
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