Different types of cancers tend to hit different categories of people. Knowing the risks and recognising the signs could be critical. This is the fourth of a four-part series looking at common cancers that hit women, men, children and the elderly.

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Some gynaecological cancers have few or no symptoms, and can prove to be deadly killers. Here are three to take note of.

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You could smell the odour of rotting flesh as she walked into the room. Once she undressed, it was obvious that she had a fungating tumour which had eaten away most of her right breast. Beneath the layers of tissue paper, the fleshy tumour was infected and blood was oozing away.

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Some recent newspaper reports have touched on compassion shown to cancer patients. In one report, a judge cut down the jail time of a criminal with late-stage cancer.

Most people recognise that life becomes more valuable when someone, like a terminally ill patient, has little time left.

However, I feel that cancer patients also need a practical, everyday sort of compassion, not just when they are dying but when they are very much alive and are able to work.

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