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Breast Cancer Treatment

January 21, 2012 by · Comments Off on Breast Cancer Treatment 

Breast Cancer Treatment, A latest report reveals that though breast cancer survivors are being cured and surviving successfully today as compared to the treatment facilities about two decades ago, which made it tough for women to cope with the disease. The risk of their future fertility is still questioned, say researchers.

It has been found by the researchers at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California-Los Angeles that women who get diagnosed with the disease at an earlier stage are facing heavy toll. They said that reproductive issues such as infertility and early-onset menopause are also faced by such women.

Young women below the age of 50, who get treatment earlier, need to tackle physical as well as mental health problems. In addition, it has also been revealed by the American Cancer Society that women younger than 50 are the most targeted victims of the breast cancer, the most common non-skin cancer in women, in the US.

Researchers have further concluded that young women survivors of the disease have to struggle through a wide number of life challenges too, such as weight gain and psychological stress. Moreover, these women find it much difficult after cancer-related surgery to hold their body and move on easily.

Though chemotherapy and then surgery can help them to fight the ailment, but sometimes, this treatment leaves them with unfulfilled plans of having children and making them to be called infertile. Breast Cancer hits them all of a sudden and unexpectedly bringing a major change in their smooth running and healthy working life, say the reports.

“We hear such negative information [about cancer], but you can only fight one battle at a time. We are so engulfed in our disease that we forget we have to live our lives every day” said Nicole Vazquez, 40, a breast cancer survivor.

Breast Cancer Treatment

November 7, 2011 by · Comments Off on Breast Cancer Treatment 

Breast Cancer Treatment, UT Bank has held its annual Pink Ball to round off its funds raising and breast cancer campaign for 2011 aimed to create awareness about the diseases among men and women at the weekend.

This year’s Breast Cancer Awareness observed in October was on the theme: “Connect, Communicate, Conquer and Prevent Breast Cancer, One Woman at a Time. The Pink Ribbon Wear it. Share it.”

The Bank, in partnership with Citi FM, launched the awareness to raise GH¢ 100,000 to help provide cure at an early stage of the disease and to buy Mobile Pre-Screening Unit facilities for early detection and the treatment of the disease.

Statistics worldwide indicate that nearly one in eight women are diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime — a total of one woman every three minutes — and nearly 2,000 men are diagnosed each year as well.

Studies show that fifty percent or more of Ghanaians with breast cancer report to hospitals at an advanced stages of the disease. On average they report 8 months or more after first noticing a change in their breasts.

Mrs. Zara Neequaye, Co-ordinator of the programme at UT Bank, said the company hoped “to raise GHc100,000 to provide cure for early stage of cancer for at least 200 persons in the year 2011. It is anticipated that early stages of diagnosis can be cured with as little as GHc500.”

Pearl Esua-Mensah, Executive Director Finance, UT Bank, said the aim was to reduce the spread of breast cancer to an appreciable level, adding that UT Bank’s motivation was to help save lives.

The mobile unit, she noted, would provide easy access to disadvantaged women and men nationwide, to increase the chance of detecting the disease at the early stages and its successful treatment.

The campaign for the month saw the bank’s staff organized a health walk through some principal streets of Accra to distribute information leaflets on breast cancer to raise awareness.

Aside the health walk, the bank also held screening exercises at various market centres including Makola, Kaneshie, Madina, Agbogbloshie, Mallam, Koforidua, Takoradi, Tarkwa, Kumasi and Tamale, where stands were mounted to enable market women and men to examine their breasts.

Last year, UT Bank, in collaboration with the Cancer Society of Ghana, raised over GH¢ 30,000.00 through a series of events, including the ‘Pink Ball’ event to champion its cause in the fight against breast cancer in the country. Eighteen people, according to company officials, have so far received assistance for various levels of cancer treatment.

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