‘50,000 women educated on breast cancer in two years’

KARACHI: First Lady, Begum Samina Arif Alvi Saturday said that the breast cancer in Pakistan was being addressed at an unprecedented scale and was being taken seriously as about 50,000 women of low-income households had been educated about it during the past two years.

She was addressing a breast cancer awareness programme held at Governor House.

Begum Samina Arif Alvi was also accompanied by Begum Reema Imran, wife of Governor Sindh Imran Ismail, said a press release.

She also lauded media’s role in creating awareness about breast cancer by spreading her message.

The breast cancer awareness campaign was yielding results as it was no more considered as a taboo, she said.

Begum Samina Arif Alvi also inaugurated the National Breast Cancer Awareness helpline and said that the facility would encourage those women who felt shy of visiting hospitals.

She advised women to go for screening so as to identify breast cancer as early as possible and encouraged them to be bold and inculcate the habit of self-examination.