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The family of a mother who died from cervical cancer after twice being wrongly told she had negative results have been awarded undisclosed damages.

Steve from South London had to stop working after a car accident left him with chronic cervical spondylosis, which affects the health of bones and skin on the neck, and brain damage.

The screening included checks for possible cervical, breast and bowel cancer, as well as abdominal aortic aneurysm.

There is no national prostate cancer screening programme in the UK, unlike for breast, bowel and cervical cancer.

People not knowing about options to make their cervical screening easier and more comfortable is "costing lives", a cancer charity warned last month.