Healthcare: ‘Pakistan has most cases of breast cancer in all of Asia’

Early detection is the best prevention of breast cancer


Press Release October 30, 2014

KARACHI:


Pakistan has the highest incidence of breast cancer in all of Asia, said Ziauddin Hospital’s Dr Lubna Mushtaque Vohra on Thursday.


The assistant professor and breast surgeon was speaking at an awareness seminar at the hospital. Early detection is the best prevention of breast cancer, she said, adding that the earlier the symptoms are detected and the breast examination conducted, the lower are the chances of cancer development.

Addressing the audience on the taboo that breast cancer has become in Pakistan, Ziauddin Hospital’s oncology director Dr Tariq Siddique gave some encouragement to the audience and educated them about the proper means to approach the issue.

Dr Tariq stressed upon the need for women subject to such risks to approach their nearest female doctor. Any procrastination with respect to such risks could lead to life-threatening consequences, he said.

Similar views were shared by radiology department head Dr Muhammad Kashif Shazlee and histopathology department head Dr Fouzia Lateef.

The doctors suggested students take up volunteer work to conduct awareness and knowledge-based programmes throughout the year, especially in the rural areas, with practical demonstration on how to conduct self-examination.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 31st, 2014.

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