Jade Goody effect

A popular term for the increase in colposcopies and requests for cervical screening tests due to an increase in doctor visits by young women in the UK, which followed the very public 2008 diagnosis—and subsequent death—of advanced cervical cancer in the 26-year-old British reality TV star, Jade Goody. She died in March 2009, less than a year after her diagnosis.

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The Jade Goody effect is gone" - experts warn lives could be lost as cervical cancer screenings plunge

'We're chucking the kitchen sink at my cancer and I'll do anything I can to beat it'; Chris Carberry was given devastating news the disease has spread to four places in his body

More women were seen to make their smear test appointments after Goody's passing, but nine years on a cervical cancer charity boss warned "The Jade Goody effect has long gone".

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This reverses a falling trend since 2009/10, when the percentage up to date peaked at 74%, most likely due to the Jade Goody effect, following publicity around her illness and death from cervical cancer on March 22, 2009.

Women are missing out on cancer checks

The 2009/10 figure was boosted by the so-called Jade Goody effect after the reality star died of cervical cancer.

Melanie Harvey ...the last word

It is one reason why the Jade Goody effect - which saw more women opting for screening for the first time in years following the Big Brother star's cancer death - is in retreat.