Until a breast cancer patient is close to you, a mother, a daughter, sister or best friend, it’s hard to imagine or think about it, much less doing something about it.
 Breast Care Foundation thus is a non governmental organization that is dedicated to the course of ensuring that women become breast aware. Being breast aware is all about becoming familiar with your normal breast tissue, shape and size through self-breast examination, making it easier for you to detect any abnormality early enough in your breast and have it treated.
Hence, B.C. F fights breast cancer through educating the populace and research.
It cares for the least educated as well as well educated by various educational means such as market places outreach, Workshops, Seminars Hospital and home visitation, using Posters and fliers in English and local dialects to educate the masses. Also media outreach is carried out on radio and television.
B.C.F education program reaches into local schools, churches, business and civil organizations to create breast awareness by self breast examination in order to prevent development of breast cancer.
Hence breast health.
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Generally, there are four steps to good breast health screening: they are mammography and ultrasound, regular clinical breast examination, monthly self breast exam and complete breast cancer risk assessment by a health care professional.
However, B.C.F is committed to the course of breast self examination as a way of maintaining good breast health screening, clinical breast examination and ultrasound screening. |
Thus at awareness campaigns, women are taught how to examine their breasts to detect lumps and observe any abnormalities, and are advised to consult a medical doctor without delay on the account of above.
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