If an hour or so of uncomfortableness once a year can catch early signs of breast, ovarian or cervical cancer, then I'm for it.

Also high risk for breast cancer (maternal grandmother, prudish, ill educated mother who never thought to mention it), I'll take any tit squashing they'll hand out to me... even though at under 45 and still "functioning" if not fertile, I'm not considered eligible.

However well you think you know your body, it can still play the dirty on you and throw a spanner in the works. My spanner is an abnormal liver function, which is quite scary enough. If it were an abnormal smear or breast exam, then I'd be even more freaked out than I am now.

LTS