National Breast Cancer Summit In June

SERDANG, April 26 (Bernama) -- An inaugural national summit on breast cancer education aimed to generate holistic strategic initiatives for breast cancer education in Malaysia as well as to raise awareness on breast health will be held at the Sunway Lagoon Resort Hotel beginning June 30.
Organising co-chairman of the summit Dr Mazanah Muhammad, a survivor of breast cancer, said the summit was expected to bring together breast cancer patients of all ages, family and the public who had an interest in breast health.
Themed "Voices of the Stakeholders," the three-day summit would provide more information to the public about breast cancer in various languages, she said.
"A lot of the printed information on the disease are in English, but we also want to make the information available in Bahasa Malaysia, Tamil and Chinese because every Malaysian understands English," she told a press conference here Wednesday.
She said in conjunction with the summit, a workshop on breast cancer would be held in which resolutions from the workshop would be compiled and presented to Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil for further action.
More than 500 participants comprising medical professionals, healthcare workers and breast cancer patients and survivors, would attend the summit, she said adding that the Raja Permaisuri Agong Tuanku Fauziah Tengku Abdul Rashid is expected to launch the summit.