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World Service,27 Aug 2014,28 mins

Cancer in Pregnancy

Health Check

Available for over a year

Why one woman chose to write a comic about her experience of surgery and chemotherapy after getting a diagnosis of colon cancer nearly half way through her pregnancy. Also on the programme how football is improving the health of homeless people in Denmark; why if your mother had gestational diabetes you are at a much increased risk of developing diabetes in later life and will the stethoscope ever be replaced by high tech hand held scanning devices? Picture credit: Copyright: Matilda Tristam

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