Campaign to empower men to examine women for breast cancer launched - Adomonline.com

A project that is seeking to consciously empower men to fight against the rising cases of breast cancer in Ghana has been launched.

Dubbed; Men In Arms Against Breast Cancer Initiative (MIAA) the project seeks to develop and demonstrate  practical models that would improve the access of early detection and treatment of breast cancers in women through the help of men.

He stated that the primary and most significant antidote to reducing the cancer was the creation of public awareness for early detection and medical intervention before the cancers advanced with a poor prognosis.

Mr Awinibuno added that a general call for allocating more resources in order to train more men and women to create awareness for early detection of breast cancers was therefore in order and should be supported.

A general surgeon at Nyaho Medical Centre, Dr Romeo Hussey, lauded the initiative for empowering men in the fight against breast cancer as he explained that it created a shared responsibility between both partners in ensuring that suspicious changes in the breast were quickly investigated.

While commending the interventions of the government for making some chemotherapy agents accessible, he urged for the inclusion the diagnosis of breast cancer as part of the services covered by the National Health Insurance Scheme.

This, he said, would go a long way to reduce the financial burden of treating breast cancers in the country.