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ADVICE FROM OUR WOMAN’S WEEKLY DOCTOR Endometriosis scanning The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends all women with suspected endometriosis have early specialist transvaginal ultrasound or MRI scans, even if physical examination is normal. NICE’s updated guideline on endometriosis diagnosis and management follows the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death, and Endometriosis UK reports highlighting poor healthcare professional awareness of the condition and how it presents, delayed diagnoses, prolonged suffering, ill health and reduced fertility. UK CANCER VACCINE PROGRESS The UK is becoming a centre for cancer vaccine trials, with 30 British hospitals joining the Cancer Vaccine Launch Pad scheme, enrolling NHS patients in messenger RNA (mRNA) cancer vaccine trials, including against non-small cell lung cancer, melanoma and bowel cancer. The vaccines present tumour markers…