Breast cancer awareness program for students
KOTA KINABALU: Kinabalu Pink Ribbon (KPR) recently conducted a breast cancer awareness program for Forms 3 and 4 students of SM Lok Yuk in Likas.
Dr. Anita Boay, a medical practitioner from a private clinic, also KPR’s Technical Advisor, gave a one hour interactive talk with students about breast health and the importance of early education about the life threatening disease.
Commending the attendance of not just the female but male students to the talk, she said they could play a role as ambassadors as they spread the knowledge gained to their mother, sisters, aunts, other women and eventually their wives when they marry. Earlier on Unis Hasnah Yabi, a breast cancer survivor for 22 years together with Laura Bazan shared their journeys and advised women to do regular breast examination, for early detection could save life.
Meanwhile, Nancy Tham, KPR’s president said the association would intensify its breast cancer awareness campaigns to organisations, colleges, schools, villages and where opportunity calls.
“We want to reach out to the community as much as we could,” she added.
Also attending the event were form teachers of the Lok Yuk Secondary School led by Nur Iszuani binti Ishak, Guidance and Counselling teacher, KPR immediate past president Annie Chin, past president Hajah Natrah Datuk Arif, exco members and volunteers from the association.