Lagoon Hospitals Walk To Promote Breast Cancer Awareness
Chioma Umeha Lagos – Nigerian women die of breast cancer due to lack of access to accurate information, affordable screening, and treatment options. To this effect, the World Health Organisation in its 2014 reports recommended increased awareness, equitable access to early diagnosis and timely, effective, and affordable treatment needed globally. Breast cancer is currently one of the leading causes of death among women even as research shows that late detection is a major factor. Every year, the month of October is used for breast cancer awareness to support women battling with breast cancer. Women are also educated and advised on early detection with free cancer screening done for all women/ Lagoon Hospitals, one of Nigeria’s leading healthcare facility, recently conducted a Breast Cancer Walk in its immediate environs in commemoration of the International Breast Cancer Awareness Month The goal of breast cancer awareness Walk was to raise the public’s a