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#Breast cancer awareness month
“I am ready to accept whatever happens”: Khadiji’s battle with breast cancer in Lebanon
During Breast Cancer Awareness Month, MAP and their partner Naba’a, promoted early detection, and offered free consultations with doctors at reproductive health clinics and referrals for free testing for Palestinian women like Khadiji in Lebanon.
“The breast cancer campaign’s activities are essential during these times”
MAP’s Programme Manager in Lebanon spoke to women to hear about the challenges to accessing breast cancer diagnosis and care in Lebanon, and how MAP and Naba’a are helping overcome these.
How restrictions on Gaza are a matter of life and death for breast cancer patients
During Breast Cancer Awareness Month, MAP highlights how the situation for breast cancer patients in Gaza has worsened amid the COVID-19 pandemic and Israel’s 11-day military offensive in May.
“Breast cancer will not wait or end because of coronavirus”
In Lebanon, Nurse Kafa, who works with our local partner organisation Naba’a, has been helping to coordinate Breast Cancer Awareness Month activities in the Palestinian refugee camps of Ein el Helweh and Rashidyeh.
شاهد قصة ديما: كيف لا يزال حصار غزة يحرم النساء المصابات بسرطان الثدي من الرعاية الطبيه التي يحتاجونها
بمناسبة شهر اكتوبر وهو شهرالتوعية بسرطان الثدي ، تعيد جمعية العون الطبي للفلسطينيين (MAP) نشر فيديو الرسوم المتحركة الذي يسلط الضوء على التحديات العديدة التي يواجهها مرضى سرطان الثدي في غزة.
Deema, 2020: How the Gaza blockade still denies women with breast cancer the care they deserve
To mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month, MAP is relaunching its animation highlighting the many challenges faced by breast cancer patients in Gaza.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month round-up: MAP’s activities in Palestine, Lebanon and the UK
MAP is grateful to all our partners who supported a successful and far-reaching Breast Cancer Awareness Month campaign. Read a round-up of what our teams and partners got up to throughout the month.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month: “I’m proud to be a survivor at the Dunya Centre”
MAP recently met with women from the Dunya Women Cancer Centre, to hear about the clinic's psychosocial support and the difference it is making to Palestinian women’s lives.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month: “The worst part was the uncertainty and waiting"
Suad, a Palestinian woman from Gaza, describes the many difficulties she has faced as a breast cancer patient.
Watch: UK breast cancer specialists help Palestinian surgeons develop new techniques
This week, a multidisciplinary team of UK breast cancer specialists travelled to the West Bank with MAP to help develop breast cancer care.
Email your MP: urge the UK Government to support Palestinian women with breast cancer
This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, MAP is encouraging supporters to write to their MP, to call for action to address the needs of Palestinian women affected breast cancer.
Developing Palestinian breast cancer care this Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Next week, a group of UK specialists is travelling to the West Bank to support the development of breast cancer care. We spoke to Jane Macaskill, Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon, to find out what her and her team will be up to.
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