BREAST CANCER AWARENESS FROM PAKISTAN PROSPECTIVE

Abstract

Breast cancer is considered as one of the deadly disease for women around the globe. More than one Million ladies every year across the globe are diagnosed with this deadly disease .At some stage of life .According to estimation 1 out 9 ladies in Pakistan will develop breast cancer . In all Asian countries ladies from Pakistan have higher chances of breast cancer.In order to cope this deadly disease developed countries set national cancer registries which registered the newly diagnosed cancer patient.Which is very useful in order to know the factors the help in creating cancer .There is no setup of this kind is available at national level in Pakistan. In Pakistan mostly women have no knowledge regarding the initial stage of that disease and they not pay attention during the initial stage of that disease. Most of the ladies visit hospitals at the last stage of, at which doctors are unable to do anything and give proper treatment Most of the Pakistani females hesitate to talk about breast cancer. So the purpose of this paper is to give awareness regarding the breast cancer, highlight the symptoms of the initial stage, it treatment and major causes of this deadly disease. Also suggest that government and social organizations run awareness programs to educate the females regarding that disease in rural areas and special to the young girls which are now studying in the colleges and universities.