Director of Tema Port shares Breast Cancer survival story

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Mrs Sandra Opoku, Director of , , and Harbours Authority () has encouraged to do a self-breast assessments as she shared her survival story with a staff of the company.

Mrs Opoku noted that she was a survivor of breast after eight years of being diagnosed; self-assessment of the breast monthly was very important.

She said any unusual thing detected in the breast should immediately be reported to the for the necessary screening, diagnosis and treatment.

She said this when the GPHA's Department organized a health walk and seminar to create awareness of breast and joined the world in celebrating Pink Month with breast screening under the theme: “, Early Detection, Saves Life.”

Dr Helen Tettey, Administrator of the GPHA Hospital in , said early detection could save a life and reiterated the need for screening.

She said it was worrying that as of the year 2020, over 250,000 cases of had been diagnosed in .

Dr John Nana Nkrumah, a General Surgeon at the GPHA Hospital, on his part, said for the past five years, about 7.3 million people were living with various stages of breast cancer worldwide.

He said people have had it and recovered fully, while others had it and were on surveillance or monitoring, chemotherapy, and palliative care, and still survived.

The American Cancer Society has established that 13 out of 100 women stand the chance of getting diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime.

Source: Laudia Sawer
Via: Ghana News Agency

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