Fight Against Breast Cancer

UK based NGO to provide special gloves to doctors, nurses
Moga,(India) April 29
Roko Cancer, a UK-based social organisation, has announced to launch an awareness drive among women in Punjab in the second week of May to help them detect breast cancer at an early stage.
Talking to The Tribune from Manchester (UK) on the phone, Kulwant Singh Dhaliwal, global ambassador of the organisation, said the growing number of breast cancer cases in the state was a matter of concern. The issue needed to be addressed by roping in the support of the Centre, the state government and social organisations.
Maintaining that early detection of breast cancer could help cure the disease, he said Roko Cancer had decided to distribute 10,000 specially designed gloves among women doctors and nurses for detecting breast lumps. “The glove costs around Rs 800 a pair but we will provide these free of cost to help save women in Punjab from this deadly disease,” he said.
“The gloves provide a safe and effective way for every woman to carry out breast self-examination.The gloves magnify the sense of human fingers allowing lumps of the size of a grain to be detected, which is not possible with bare hands,” Dhaliwal explained.
He said clinical trials of these gloves in several countries in Europe had proved its efficacy and these were widely used by women in the UK at home for self-examination.
He said Roko Cancer, which had been conducting mammography tests free of cost in collaboration with NRIs and the state Health Department for the past few years, had performed over 20,000 such tests in the state. “More than 1,000 cases of breast cancer have been confirmed. in the state and the results of another 2,000 are awaited”.
He said in the past couple of years, 200 women had been found suffering from breast cancer in Moga and Muktsar districts, 175 in Ferozepur district and 135 in Faridkot. There were hundreds of suspected cases in the Malwa belt.Stressing the need to make concerted efforts to spread awareness about breast cancer in Punjab, Dhaliwal said breast cancer was one of the leading causes of cancer deaths among women.
Roko (Stop) Cancer says...

200 women found suffering from breast cancer in Moga amd Muktsar districts

• 175 in Ferozepur district
• 135 in Faridkot district