Sonotech Medical and Diagnostic Centre has launched its Breast Most cancers Consciousness Month with thrilling packages to assist in the worldwide struggle towards breast most cancers.
To have a good time the notice month, the personal well being facility is opening its branches at no cost breast screening.
“We additionally will present 50% low cost on breast ultrasound and 20% low cost on mammograms all through the month of October. Breast most cancers consciousness is essential, however so is breast well being consciousness. By working collectively, we will encourage hope and change into a pressure for good to “GIVE HOPE, and SAVE LIVES,” an announcement issued on October 1, stated.
Globally, the month of October is marked as Breast Most cancers Consciousness Month, which is an annual marketing campaign to extend consciousness of the illness.
Most cancers is a illness that considerably impacts numerous the world inhabitants. Breast most cancers is a illness through which malignant (most cancers) cells kind within the tissues of the breast. It is likely one of the main causes of most cancers mortalities in each sexes globally.
Most cancers of the breast is the most typical most cancers in each creating and developed international locations and is liable for over a million in an estimated ten million neoplasms recognized in each sexes worldwide (International most cancers statistics, 2002,” CA-A Most cancers Journal for Clinicians, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 74–108, 2005). In Ghana as eventually yr 2020, 24009 new circumstances of breast most cancers had been recorded and out of that, 15802 deaths had been recorded referring to breast most cancers over the previous 5 years. Of all of the most cancers circumstances in 2020, breast most cancers alone accounted for 4482(18.7%) new circumstances of most cancers recorded in each sexes. (Worldwide Company for the Analysis on cancer-2020)
Analysis because it that almost 70% of girls recognized with breast most cancers in Ghana are in superior levels of the illness due particularly to low consciousness, leading to restricted remedy success and excessive dying price.
For us at Sonotech specifically and sadly, we dedicate this yr’s celebration to agallant fighter (a girl who devoted her life, even in her struggling, to make sure that others had been educated in regards to the illness and ultimately succumbed to the icy palms of dying) following the illness.
She was with us in the course of the launch of final yr’s celebration which was held at our Tema department and her presents tremendously touched the lives of those that heard her story. Sadly, she is not any extra with us! Carried away by the most cancers that regularly stole her from us. That’s the extra cause why we should all be part of forces to achieve extra folks with the message particularly the ladies who’re most susceptible and marginalized as nicely.
We at Sonotech are undoubtedly rising because the champions of this annual celebration and consciousness creation. Commutatively, greater than 10,000 ladies have been educated over the previous 5 years and over 5,000 benefited from free screening to verify their breast.
As well as, a variety of ladies had free or extremely backed scans similar to mammogram, CT, X-ray and Ultrasound scans carried out by means of our benevolence as a part of our contribution to the course, and we promise to do extra.
With our third department changing into totally operational on the West Hills Mall, we’re poised to provide the general public high quality, dependable and inexpensive healthcare of worldwide commonplace proper right here in Ghana.
Supply: 3news.com|Ghana
