EARLY DETECTION SAVES LIVES

“In December 2019, I lost my childhood friend to stage-4 cancer. This event took me by surprise but also woke me up to the fact that I had to do a mammogram. Up to that point I’d been striving to be healthy –I exercised three to four times a week and took good care of myself.

I had been very good in doing my annual health assessments and, in January 2019 when I did my annual pap smear and breast checks, my gynaecologist said I was very healthy and needed to only come back in two years for my next examination. There were no symptoms to indicate I had breast cancer. I’m talking about the common signs that we should look for like a lump, discomfort, nipple discharge, inverted nipples. I had none of that.

My friend’s funeral left me quite devastated, I just could not believe