Fight Breast Cancer

I was shocked. An article in today's newspaper caught my attention. It said that while the survival rate in the West is high, in India sadly one patient dies of breast cancer every 13 minutes. This is horrifying. The main reason, in India if not elsewhere in the world, is a lack of awareness. Websites like that of Breast Cancer India http://www.breastcancerindia.net/ have a lot of valuable information which should be propagated.

Breast cancer is now acknowledged to be a curable disease if detected at an early stage. Unfortunately in today's world, and India is no exception, women seem to be so busy managing their careers and their homes that they have little time to care of themselves. In many cases, they have ignored early symptoms either due to ignorance or due to misguided priorities.   More Read

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