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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.
Watch: UK medics travel to Gaza to improve breast cancer care
Last month, a MAP-supported breast cancer mission travelled to Gaza. The team comprised of Dr Ashwini Sharma, Consultant Radiologist, and Dr Gerard O’Hare, Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist.
MAP at the Scottish National Party Conference 2018
This October, MAP was at the annual conference of the Scottish National Party.
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.
At Labour Party conference, MAP urges action on Israeli policies endangering Palestinian cancer sufferers
Last week, MAP was at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool speaking to Parliamentarians, delegates and the public about the humanitarian emergency in Gaza, and barriers to the right to health of Palestinians living under occupation and as refugees.
Improving breast cancer care in Palestine: MAP’s latest medical delegation
MAP is supporting the visit of a multidisciplinary team of breast cancer specialists from the UK to the West Bank who are working to improve breast cancer care for Palestinian women.
Supporting breast cancer care for Palestinian women
For women living in the West Bank and Gaza, the stress and uncertainty of a breast cancer diagnosis is compounded by living under Israel’s 50-year military occupation.
Beating breast cancer in the West Bank: “My task now is to educate and help others to accept and treat the disease”
MAP spoke to Rania, one of many women who has benefitted from the services of the Dunya Centre, the West Bank's only clinic specialising in gynaecology and breast cancer.
Shadow Foreign Secretary visits MAP-supported cancer clinic in the West Bank
This week Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) was pleased to welcome our local MP (Islington South) and the Shadow Foreign Secretary, Emily Thornberry, to the MAP-supported Dunya Women’s Cancer Centre in Ramallah.
MAP’s breast cancer care in Gaza: Alia’s story
Alia, a breast cancer patient in Gaza, spoke to MAP’s team to tell us about her disease, the difficulties of accessing care in Gaza, and her recovery journey.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month in the West Bank
In the West Bank, MAP’s partner, the Dunya Women’s Cancer Centre, have been holding a variety of events as part of their Breast Cancer Awareness Month campaign.
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