Pink Caravan to spread awareness about breast cancer

Sharjah - It is worth mentioning that the breast cancer forms one-third of the cancer cases among women and is also considered the most common one among the ladies in the Arab countries.

Sharjah Economic Development Department (SEDD) received the Pink Caravan, which is an initiative that falls under Friends of Cancer Patients' umbrella "Kashf", in order to spread awareness about the breast cancer disease among employees at the Department. Such a workshop was carried out by SEDD due to its concerns about ensuring the well-being of its female employees and to preserve their health.
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The workshop was organized by the Department at its main headquarter, that was attended by number of female employees. Throughout the workshop, the representatives from the caravan stressed on the importance of paying great attention on introducing the main causes and effects of breast cancer as well as how it is crucial to check and early discover the disease un women, especially the ones who have a family history with such an illness. Also, it has included an explanation on how to do a self-examination at home to discover the disease.
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It is worth mentioning that the breast cancer forms one-third of the cancer cases among women and is also considered the most common one among the ladies in the Arab countries. Such a thing is due to the lack of awareness among the Arabic ladies of the importance of maintaining the health of breast and their lack of knowledge of the steps needed to examine themselves at home. In addition, another reason for such a problem in the Arabic area is the lack of checking on the illness in early ages, whereby the cure rate comes up to 90% if the disease is discovered early.
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From her side, Alya Al Hajri, Deputy Head of Marketing Section at SEDD, said that the campaign helped in raising awareness among the female employees on how to examine it and how to deal with it, whereby the employee's well-being is one of the Department's main priorities.
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