The Health Tourism Council, which continues its breast cancer awareness and awareness month activities, distributed \u201clet's be aware, let's be protected from cancer\u201d brochures to tourists coming to our country.<\/p>\n
The Health Tourism Council distributed bilingual brochures to tourists arriving to the country at Ercan Airport and Metehan border gate in cooperation with the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Tourism and Environment, NEU and Cancer Patients Aid Association within the scope of \u201cOctober 1-31 Breast Cancer Awareness Month\u201d activities.<\/p>\n
We need to realize the misconceptions...<\/strong><\/p>\n The president of the council stated that their aim is to draw the attention of all people, especially the people of the country, to the issue of awareness and to point out the mistakes that are known to be true.\u00a0Ahmet Sava\u015fan<\/a>, said that thanks to the advances in diagnosis and treatment in recent years, breast cancer is no longer considered a fatal but a chronic disease.<\/p>\n Every year 1.4 million women are diagnosed with breast cancer<\/strong><\/p>\n Underlining that one of the most important factors in the success of treatments is the early diagnosis as a result of increased awareness, Sava\u015fan stated that 1.4 million women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year in the world.<\/p>\n The brochures were read with interest.<\/strong><\/p>\n Stating that cancer is one of the leading bleeding wounds in our country\u00a0Ahmet Sava\u015fan<\/a>, Underlining that breast cancer can be treated with early diagnosis, she expressed their happiness to see that the brochures prepared in two languages and distributed to the people of the country and tourists in various parts of Northern Cyprus were read with great satisfaction and interest.<\/p>\n Mapping cancer is very important...<\/strong><\/p>\n Pointing out the importance of the Ministry of Health to complete its work on cancer mapping as soon as possible, Sava\u015fan emphasized the importance of women being regularly checked by various methods against the risk of breast cancer.<\/p>\n Regular self-examination is very important...<\/strong><\/p>\n The Council's experts in this field warn that after the age of 20, women should regularly examine themselves every month, every three years between the ages of 20 and 40, and every year after the age of 40.\u00a0Ahmet Sava\u015fan<\/a>, She added that mammography should be performed once at the age of 40 and every year after the age of 45.\u00a0Ahmet Sava\u015fan<\/a>\u00a0Finally, she said that not only women but also men get breast cancer, albeit at a very low rate, adding that awareness is the key to cancer prevention.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Continuing its breast cancer awareness and awareness month activities, the Health Tourism Council distributed \u201clet's be aware, let's be protected from cancer\u201d brochures to tourists coming to our country. Within the scope of the \u201cOctober 1-31 breast cancer awareness and awareness month\u201d activities, the Health Tourism Council, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Tourism and Environment, NEU and the Cancer Patients Aid Association, distributed brochures at Ercan Airport and Metehan border gate [...].<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-haberler"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t