Hi! Health reporter Olivia Willis here, bringing you the latest in ABC Health & Wellbeing.
 

Almost 7,000 women are diagnosed with a gynaecological cancer in Australia every year.
 

And yet, in the community, they remain poorly understood.
 

With few early detection tests available, gynaecological cancers, including ovarian cancer, can grow silently. When there are signs, they can get overlooked.
 

"The most common symptoms — bloating, feeling full [quickly] and the need to urinate more often … they present like other common conditions," says Kristin Young, who was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2009.
 

Kristin and more than 100 other gynaecological cancer patients and caregivers are now working to improve awareness of these cancers among Australia's future doctors and nurses.
 

In university classrooms, they're sharing their lived experience with the next generation of health professionals to improve understanding and reduce delays in diagnosis.
 

"If, through education and awareness, we can help a small number of people be diagnosed even a bit earlier, it's better than things staying the way they are," Kristin says.
 

Read the full story or catch the podcast about it here.
 

Also this week: Health Minister Mark Butler announced the federal government would tip $2 billion into "Thriving Kids", a new program outside the NDIS aimed at supporting children with mild to moderate developmental delays and autism.
 

And Monash IVF is under pressure to publicly release an independent review into embryo mix-up bungles in Brisbane and Melbourne.
 

I'll catch you next week.
 

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