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Published: February 07, 2017 11:35 am On: Health
HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE
KATHMANDU: The World Cancer Day is celebrated on February 4 every year with an aim to raise awareness about cancer. Highlighting the importance of awareness about the disease, the Nepal Breast Cancer Foundation organised a Breast Cancer Screening Camp in Lalitpur and Biratnagar on the same day this year as well as an interaction programme.
People from the local communities benefited from the event, the Foundation shared in a press release, where 182 women of Khappinchhe Tole, Chayasal, Lalitpur got their breasts screened at the camp. These women were also informed about the techniques of self-examining their breasts for cancer. More information was provided on cancer, its symptoms and risks, the importance of self-breast examination and mammography to the participants.
“We wanted to conduct an awareness campaign as people are quite unaware about the disease. If breast cancer is detected at an early stage, then patients will not have to lose their breast(s),” President of the Foundation, Dr Suzita Hirachan expressed in the statement adding, “A breast conserving surgery will be helpful for patients so that they can save their breast and also to stop cancer from developing in other organs. There will be a good survival rate.”
Five doctors — Dr Hirachan, Dr Ritesh Shrestha, Dr Manisha Bajracharya, Dr Jebina Lama and Dr Safala Maskey — made the camp and awareness possible. As per the press release, the Foundation also organised a camp in Bal Mandir School, Biratnagar where the doctors of Nepal Medical Volunteers Society — Dr Parth Guragain and Dr. Surya Parajuli — conducted an interactive programme regarding awareness about cancer.
A version of this article appears in print on February 07, 2017 of The Himalayan Times.
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