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Awareness about breast cancer stressed
PESHAWAR: Experts at a seminar here Monday stressed the need for coordinated campaign to create awareness about breast cancer, a fatal disease that claims thousands of lives across the country every year.
During the launching programme of World Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign known as Pink Ribbon campaign under the auspices of IRNUM Peshawar, health experts said that the ratio of breast cancer was 38.5 per cent higher than other types of cancer found among the women.
Mohammad Naeem, representative of Pink Ribbon Campaign, said that every year about 90,000 female were diagnosed with breast cancer in the country but due to certain factors including cultural taboos, unawareness and untimely treatment, about 40,000 of them become seriously ill due to delayed diagnosis.
He said that a considerable number of breast cancer patients could be saved from the disease if there was proper awareness about the disease. Dr Sher Muhammad, Ghulam Sarwar Mohmand, Dr Parveen Azam Khan, IRNUM Chief Executive Dr Safoora Shahid, and Dr Nabeela were present on the occasion.
Mohammad Naeem said low level of literacy among females and inadequate medical facilities meant that the women face severe difficulties when diagnosed with breast cancer. Dr Safoora Shahid said for the awareness and diagnosis of breast cancer in women, a camp would be held from October 26-30. She said that during the previous year 5,304 patients suffering from various types of cancer were registered at IRNUM. She said they included 61 per cent patients from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and 12 per cent from Fata. The patients of breast cancer were in majority among them.
Awareness about breast cancer stressed
During the launching programme of World Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign known as Pink Ribbon campaign under the auspices of IRNUM Peshawar, health experts said that the ratio of breast cancer was 38.5 per cent higher than other types of cancer found among the women.
Mohammad Naeem, representative of Pink Ribbon Campaign, said that every year about 90,000 female were diagnosed with breast cancer in the country but due to certain factors including cultural taboos, unawareness and untimely treatment, about 40,000 of them become seriously ill due to delayed diagnosis.
He said that a considerable number of breast cancer patients could be saved from the disease if there was proper awareness about the disease. Dr Sher Muhammad, Ghulam Sarwar Mohmand, Dr Parveen Azam Khan, IRNUM Chief Executive Dr Safoora Shahid, and Dr Nabeela were present on the occasion.
Mohammad Naeem said low level of literacy among females and inadequate medical facilities meant that the women face severe difficulties when diagnosed with breast cancer. Dr Safoora Shahid said for the awareness and diagnosis of breast cancer in women, a camp would be held from October 26-30. She said that during the previous year 5,304 patients suffering from various types of cancer were registered at IRNUM. She said they included 61 per cent patients from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and 12 per cent from Fata. The patients of breast cancer were in majority among them.
Awareness about breast cancer stressed
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