2011-10-05 15:44:30

Breast cancer awareness month in Sri Lanka


(Oct. 04, 2011) October is breast cancer awareness month in Sri Lanka and throughout the month women will be able to visit clinics for free tests. In its campaign, the Health Ministry is urging women to take advantage of this opportunity, advising them to have a check-up at least once a year. Official figures indicate that about 500 women die of breast cancer every year. “We have planned several activities during the month of October to educate women in the country on issue of breast cancer,” said Health Ministry’s spokesman W.M.D. Wanninayake. “Early detection could prevent breast cancer,”he explained. "We have set up 700 women’s clinics in the country’s government hospitals, which are well equipped and do all the tests free of charge,” he added.
According to the Health Ministry, most women in Sri Lanka do not visit clinics and because of that, they cannot identify the disease, until it grows to the unpreventable level. He said the most vulnerable group is women between 35 and 40 years







All the contents on this site are copyrighted ©.