One in four delay seeing doctor due to 'embarrassment'

Potential cancer symptoms are being ignored by 25% of UK employees - the equivalent of 4.7m people - because they are too embarrassed to seek advice from a doctor, research from Bupa has found. The research, which surveyed 1,245 workers, estimated that nearly half a million (480,000) people have avoided doing to the doctor altogether, risking a serious condition going undiagnosed. Vaginal bleeding is viewed as the most awkward symptom to discuss by UK adults, followed by pain in the groin,...