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LAKHIMPUR: Aina Welfare Foundation and Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangha (ACMS), in association with Assam Cancer Care Foundation (ACCF), Lakhimpur organized a walkathon on Thursday at Koilamari tea estate under the district.
This programme was conducted as an awareness drive on breast cancer. Assam Cancer Care Foundation has been observing October as breast cancer month and on Thursday, the ACCF officials initiated door-to-door visits to create awareness on the ailment. Along with 320 participants, ACCF, Community Outreach Programme health manager Sanjeev Kumar Baitha, Aina Welfare Foundation Executive Director Krishna Pratim Bordoloi, ACMS district secretary Sonjit Tanti took part in the awareness drive.
Notably, Aina Welfare Foundation has been conducting a baseline survey in the tea gardens of Lakhimpur to detect cancer patients. During the survey, a number of cancer cases have been identified and a number of people have also been found cancer positive. The identified patients have immediately been taken into the Lakhimpur Cancer Centre and provided due treatment.
The walkathon was followed by an awareness meeting chaired by Sanjib Kumar Baitha. In the meeting, awareness lectures were delivered on the importance of screening (Clinical Breast Examination at SC, HWC and BPHCs) and Self Breast Examination, risk factors, common signs and symptoms of breast cancer, health promotion and early detection, diagnostic process, mammography, MRI , ultrasound, FNAC, biopsy, comprehensive breast cancer management, free mammography in October for women above 45 years etc.
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