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Pink Ribbon opens Karachi section to support patients of breast cancer

  • March 11, 2017

Pink Ribbon CEO Omer Aftab told participants that they will shortly be opening a breast cancer sanatorium in Lahore. PHOTO: AYESHA MIR/EXPRESSPink Ribbon CEO Omer Aftab told participants that they will shortly be opening a breast cancer sanatorium in Lahore. PHOTO: AYESHA MIR/EXPRESS

Pink Ribbon CEO Omer Aftab told participants that they will shortly be opening a breast cancer sanatorium in Lahore. PHOTO: AYESHA MIR/EXPRESS

Participants were told that 9.8 million Pakistani women are fighting breast cancer. PHOTO: AYESHA MIR/EXPRESSParticipants were told that 9.8 million Pakistani women are fighting breast cancer. PHOTO: AYESHA MIR/EXPRESS
The venue was flashy with pinkish and white flowers to widespread recognition about breast cancer. PHOTO: AYESHA MIR/EXPRESSThe venue was flashy with pinkish and white flowers to widespread recognition about breast cancer. PHOTO: AYESHA MIR/EXPRESS
Pink Ribbon CEO Omer Aftab told participants that they will shortly be opening a breast cancer sanatorium in Lahore. PHOTO: AYESHA MIR/EXPRESSPink Ribbon CEO Omer Aftab told participants that they will shortly be opening a breast cancer sanatorium in Lahore. PHOTO: AYESHA MIR/EXPRESS

KARACHI: Breast cancer has been swelling in Pakistan during an shocking rate. In fact, Pakistan has a top rate of breast cancer superiority in Asia.

This was disclosed during a launch of Pink Ribbon’s Karachi chapter. The eventuality featured tables flashy with pinkish and white roses and Alicia Dias crooning ABBA’s ‘Chiquitita’.

Pink Ribbon arch executive officer Omer Aftab pronounced he initial launched this organization in 2004, when a womanlike co-worker of his was pang from this illness and he attempted to assistance her set adult a project. Though a co-worker mislaid her life in 2007, Aftab carried on a torch.

Participants were told that 9.8 million Pakistani women are fighting breast cancer. PHOTO: AYESHA MIR/EXPRESSParticipants were told that 9.8 million Pakistani women are fighting breast cancer. PHOTO: AYESHA MIR/EXPRESS

Participants were told that 9.8 million Pakistani women are fighting breast cancer. PHOTO: AYESHA MIR/EXPRESS

Aftab pronounced in Pakistan one in 9 women are now pang from this disease, that is curable if rescued in a progressing stages. As many as 9.8 million Pakistani women are fighting breast cancer, while in India a ratio is one in 22 women pang from a disease.

A means of regard is a lifestyle and eating habits, he forked out, explaining that girls as immature as 18 years of age were fighting breast cancer in Pakistan, given a normal age when many women are receptive to breast cancer is 35 years.

Medical facilities: Breast Cancer Clinic to start functioning by finish of month

“I have been extensively using recognition campaigns opposite a nation given 2004 and now, with a birth of a Karachi chapter, we would like to announce a environment adult of breast cancer sanatorium in Lahore on Ferozpur Road,” pronounced Aftab. The substructure mill of a sanatorium is to be laid on a initial of Ramazan this year.

“Karachi is a large city and we need to strech out some-more people,” he said, explaining a reason for substantiating Pink Ribbon’s Karachi chapter.

“Breast cancer is one illness that has a cause of banned trustworthy to it, as there is a ‘B’ word, that can’t be oral about,” he lamented, adding that there is also a cause of women’s sexuality compared with it. “That shouldn’t be a case, during slightest not among a prepared members of society,” pronounced Aftab.

“Women come to us when they are during theatre 3 and they quarrel to tarry this illness though if rescued early, they can kick it,” he said.

Breast cancer: Awareness, early showing imperative

“Yearly, we accept as many as 800 new breast cancer patients during my clinic. If they come during an progressing theatre there are improved chances of survival,” pronounced Dr Rufina Soomro, conduct of medicine during Liaquat National Hospital. She launched a breast hearing hospital during Liaquat National Hospital in 1994.

The venue was flashy with pinkish and white flowers to widespread recognition about breast cancer. PHOTO: AYESHA MIR/EXPRESSThe venue was flashy with pinkish and white flowers to widespread recognition about breast cancer. PHOTO: AYESHA MIR/EXPRESS

The venue was flashy with pinkish and white flowers to widespread recognition about breast cancer. PHOTO: AYESHA MIR/EXPRESS

Dr Soomro has also been operative for a campaign, including filming videos per a illness with PTV about 20 years back, however a bury house did not concede it to run on inhabitant television, she said.

She said, she had been treating women entrance from farming Sindh, southern Punjab and sparse tools of Balochistan. “The top series of breast cancer cases being reported in Asia are indeed from Pakistan,” she told participants of a event.

Dr Soomro highlighted a fact that if women take 15 mins to give themselves breast exams each month, there are most aloft chances of them violence a disease.

Breast cancer: Awareness, early showing imperative

A breast cancer survivor, Mariyam Malik, narrated her story of bravery and fighting this lethal disease, terming it an ’emotional roller-coaster float and ruin for her family’. The pivotal cause lies in detecting it early and rushing for treatment, she said.

“I am encouraged by Omer Aftab’s large prophesy and large dream. Just a suspicion about this illness is shocking though early showing and diagnosis can heal it,” pronounced Mehnaz Karamat, boss of Pink Ribbon’s Karachi chapter.

Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1352909/pink-ribbon-opens-karachi-chapter-support-patients-breast-cancer/

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