The queen mother of Aburi and Akuapem Adonten, Awo Adwoa Amene II has charged women to allow their husbands to suck their breasts to avoid breast cancer.
The Breast Society of Ghana has said that 50% of the over 4,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer die every year.
This was made known at the society’s 4th Annual General Meeting (AGM) earlier this year on the theme “Improving Breast Diseases Outcomes, the Role of the Breast Society.”
The Queen mother of Aburi and Akuapem Adonten Division in collaborated with the Women’s Wing of the New Patriotic Party in the Akuapem South Constituency to screen women in the area as part of their ways of contributing towards the fight against breast cancer.
Addressing the women present at the occasion, Awo Adwoa Amene II encouraged them to regularly examine their breast to detect symptoms.
She highlighted that early detection of breast cancer goes a long way to avert the complications of the disease and prevent death.
She also advised that, women allow their husbands to suck their breasts to protect them against the disease.
The Constituency Women Organizer of the governing New Patriotic Party in the Akuapem South Constituency, Barbara Sampana also accounted the reasons for organizing this screening.
According to her, her office was informed that, a woman in her Constituency was affected with the disease, her office followed up with help to avert the situation but unfortunately, the victim lose her life.
Mrs. Sampana expressed how uncomfortable she becomes anytime she hears one has died of breast cancer.
“Unfortunately, we lose a lot of women because they come in stage three and four. This is not acceptable anywhere. If cases were coming in stage one, for instance, treatment is better and the patients themselves will be better. They don’t need to go through expensive chemotherapy and other treatments, which can be very worrying for the patient. All these treatments come with side effects as well.”
“So we keep preaching that early detection saves lives. That is what it means. When we pick you up early enough, we will be able to treat you so that you can continue living your normal life, and we don’t continue having the high deaths from cancers that we have.”
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Igwe Gyan
