The Eve Appeal works to fund research to help detect and prevent gynaecological cancer among women. There are five gynaecological cancers - which include womb, ovarian, vulval, cervical

cancer vaginal. The charity said in the UK more than 20,000 women are diagnosed each year with gynaecological cancer and more than 7,000 die. Globally, there are one million new cases of

gynaecological cancers every year and 500,000 women will die this year as a result of them - just 28,000 fewer than breast cancer. However, last year research by The Eve Appeal revealed many

women had poor knowledge of their gynaecological anatomy. The charity said nearly two thirds - 60 per cent - could not identify the vulva and nearly half - 44 per cent could not locate the