Breast cancer is no longer part of the Kingdom’s traditional culture of
“Don’t tell anyone.”
Public programs have been set up to encourage women to check on their
breasts for early detection of the No. 1 killer of women in thus region.
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Lifting the Veil From A Deadly Disease
Laura Bush Speaks With Saudi Women About Breast Cancer
When gynecologist Samia al-Amoudi was found last year to have breast cancer,
a disease that still carries an intense stigma in this conservative country
where women are forced to cover in public, she decided to share the details
in her newspaper column, shocking many Saudis.
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Laura Bush Helps Launch Health Center
First lady Laura Bush helped launch a screening facility in Saudi Arabia
Tuesday as part of a U.S.-Saudi initiative to raise breast cancer awareness
in the kingdom where doctors struggle to break long-held taboos about the
disease.
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Urgent Appeal for Women to Seek Testing
The Bahrain Cancer Society (BCS) has issued an urgent call for women to come
forward to be screened for breast cancer.
Bahrain’s nationwide breast cancer screening campaign launched in March 2006
has fallen drastically short of targets because awareness about the
programme and breast cancer in general remains low.
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Kicking The Cigarette Butt
The Dubai municipality has formed a team to oversee the phase-in of new smoking
restrictions after May 31, XPRESS has learnt.
After several years of false starts, the restrictions will be implemented in coming
months following the crafting of regulations by the six-member team.
