3 October 2022
KUWAIT: Dr Khaled A. Al-Saleh, Chairman of the Board of the Cancer Aware Nation (CAN), announced the launch of the Breast Cancer Awareness campaign under the patronage of the Health Minister Dr Khalid Al-Saeed.
Al-Saleh said that, “we renew our call for mothers and daughter to take interest in periodically testing their health for early detection of the disease. Early detection saves lives and breast cancer is a curable disease if it is discovered in its early stage,” adding that all women above the age of 40 need to do a mammogram test.
Meanwhile, Dr Hessa Majid Al-Shaheen, Board Member and Head of the Breast Cancer Awareness Initiative for 2022, said that the community needs to come together to spread awareness about such diseases.
Breast cancer is the most prevalent form of cancer among women with the number of cases reaching 2.3 million in 2020, according to WHO figures, which is 24.2 percent of the total number of cancer cases in the world.
