Breast Cancer Month: Early detection guarantees 100% cure — CMD

Chief Medical Director, National Hospital, Abuja, Dr Jaf Momoh, on Tuesday advocated routine screening for breast cancer on women, saying that early detection guarantees 100 per cent cure.

Momoh said this during the commemoration of Breast Cancer Awareness Day, organised by Breast Imaging Society of Nigeria, National Hospital branch in Abuja.

The theme of the 2020 Breast Cancer Awareness day is “Go Pink Day, Save a breast, save a life’’.

The CMD said early detection of the diseases still remained the best way to control breast cancer, noting that if detected early, with adequate diagnosis and treatment, there was good chance of being cured.

“This is a disease that we know that if diagnosed early is 100 per cent curable as currently there was no sufficient knowledge on the causes of the diseases.

“If you want to stem down these disease as early as possible, routine screening is what we must encourage all women, whether young or old, to undertake.”