Breast Cancer Awareness

Public education must be combined with health worker education about the signs and symptoms of early breast cancer in order for women to be referred to diagnostic services when necessary.

By providing public health education to improve awareness among women of the signs and symptoms of breast cancer and, together with their families, understand the importance of early detection and treatment, more women would consult medical practitioners when breast cancer is first suspected, and before any cancer present is advanced. This is possible even in the absence of mammographic screening that is impractical in many countries at the present time.