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'Many women still unaware of breast cancer risk'

Staff Correspondent
A 35-year-old Nurjahan Begum, who lives at Chandana Chowrasta of Gazipur, heard about a camp for raising awareness about breast cancer and free breast screening.
The mother of three children. Nurjahan works as a domestic help and decided to visit the camp as she had been feeling a lump in her right breast with severe pain since few months.
“As the camp was being held near my house, I thought I should avail the chance," said the poor lady whose husband left her a few years ago.
The doctors watched the lump and asked her to go to Dhaka for further examination and treatment as the symptoms were not good.
Like Nurjahan, many women of this country are quite unaware of breast
tumour that often turns into malignant cancer before going to the doctor.
So with a view to making people aware of breast cancer, the Centre for Cancer Prevention and Research (CCPR) and Nokia started an awareness campaign along with free breast screening.
The three-month-long campaign that began in October 2008 came to an end yesterday covering around 2000 women in 20 districts.
Speaking at the concluding programme of the 1st phase campaign. Dr Habibullah Talukder, associate professor and head of the department of Cancer Epidemiology, said many women in the country still know little about breast cancer and how to go through self-examination to be sure whether there is lump in their breast or not.
" Through this camp we just tried to
make the women aware
of breast cancer so that they can go to the doctors or medical centres to avoid further complexities," he said, adding that women in the camp were also told what should be their treatment and where to go.
"We found lumps in 345 women and 50 of them were detected malignant tumour," he added.
Syed Nowfel Anower, head of marketing of Nokia, said as part of the corporate social responsibility Nokia joined the campaign and
donated Tk 1000 from the sale proceeds of each pinkcell phone set.
Dr Saidur Rahman Bhuiyan, civil surgeon of Gazipur, and Dr Ruhul Furkan Siddique, deputy programme manager of DGHS, were present on the occasion.