Yellow Week To Raise Awareness On Breast Cancer

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 28 (Bernama) -- Yellow will be the colour for a week from Sept 12 in a campaign by the National Cancer Society of Malaysia (NCSM) to create awareness on breast cancer.
NCSM executive director Dr Saunthari Somasundaram said Sunday cancer was a curable disease and early detection helped to save lives and having cancer did not necessarily end with death.
To this end, NCSM was raising funds for its education and support services to establish a mobile cancer screening bus that could travel to areas of greatest need to provide free education and breast cancer screening, she said in a statement here.
A series of "CelebrateLife" events and activities would be carried out in the Klang Valley, including a dinner concert at a hotel on Sept 16, a three-day Cancer Expo at Suria KLCC and Bangsar Shopping Centre and CelebrateLife Inaugural Charity Golf Tournament on Sept 18.
She said that 6,000 Malaysian women aged between 35 and 50 were diagnosed with breast cancer every year but breast cancer screening and early detection would help cure the illness.
With screening and early diagnosis, over 90 per cent of women with breast cancer can be cured and lead a normal life and a simple self breast examination and mammography could save a woman's life," she said.