Sunward Park
Medical Center

Breast Cancer Awareness Month is an opportunity to move beyond the pink ribbon and focus on something that matters all year round: breast awareness and appropriate screening. Breast cancer affects women and families across South Africa. Knowing what is normal for your breasts, being aware of changes and discussing your individual risk and screening needs with a healthcare professional can all play an important role in breast health. Changes worth discussing with your doctor include a new lump or swelling, changes in the size or shape of a breast, skin or nipple changes, or unusual nipple discharge. Not every breast change is cancer, but a new or persistent change should not be ignored.
This October, let’s encourage the women in our lives to prioritise their health, not through fear, but through awareness, informed choices and appropriate screening.
And we recognise every person whose life has been touched by breast cancer: those undergoing treatment, those living beyond a diagnosis, the families and friends supporting them and those we remember.
Awareness creates knowledge. Knowledge encourages action.
Dr Angela Murphy is a Specialist Physician with a special interest in diabetes, obesity, thyroid disorders, metabolic health and chronic disease management, consulting at ERIMM, Sunward Park Medical Centre, Boksburg.
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