During breast cancer awareness month, NGOs provide educational and diagnostic services for its early detection

 With the launch of the International Breast Cancer Awareness Month (Pink Month), which is in October of each year, a number of NGOs participate in health awareness and guidance activities and other diagnostic activities that focus on the importance of early detection and the definition of the types of examinations related to that.

The President of the Family Planning AssociationDr.Hazar Miqdad indicated that since the first of this month, the medical team in the association began providing health awareness guidance to all women benefiting from the reproductive health services provided by the association through its fixed and mobile clinics spread in 13 governorates, 45 of which are fixed women’s clinics and 23 mobile teams.

Dr. Miqdad said that health awareness includes introducing women to the symptoms of breast cancer, the method of self-examination, and the importance of conducting periodic examinations through (echo) or (mammogram) according to international health protocols.

From the Charitable Youth Association, the director of its medical centers, Dr. Nermin Abdel Qader, explained that the association is implementing an awareness event entitled (You are Life) throughout the current month.

Dr. Abdel Qadersaid that the association’s centers also provide a mammogram service for women over the age of 40 this month free of charge within the Qudsaya Medical Complex in Damascus.

Dr. Abdel-Qader added that according to global statistics, breast cancer is one of the most common cancers spread among females, as it constitutes 33 percent of cancers, and one in eight women is afflicted by it.

O. al-Mohamm