Nabta Health Challenges Women’s Healthcare to “Unthink the Pink”

Date Posted:Wed, 4th Oct 2023

Nabta Health Challenges Women’s Healthcare to “Unthink the Pink”

While the whole world is thinking pink, we're here today to ask you to *unthink* it. To be bold enough to have a different, and potentially difficult, conversation with us.

 

Today, 80% of breast cancers in MENA are diagnosed at Stage 4, which has a 27% five-year survival rate, versus 99% at Stages 1 and 2. It's much better to be diagnosed at Stages 1 and 2, but we're not reliably doing it.

Why?

For many reasons:
🚫 Taboos
🚫 Stigma
🚫 Fear
🚫 Lack of access
🚫 Cost of treatment

And Breast Cancer Awareness Month is not helping.

It's become so ingrained in our heads that "October is the month to get checked", that if we miss it, we tell ourselves, "Never mind - next October".

We forget that cancer is (usually) a disease that creeps up on us - with collections of symptoms over days, weeks and months. By the time the symptoms are so obvious that a checkup can no longer be avoided, it's often too late.

Understanding the signs and symptoms of the different cancers is essential, but understanding your body and listening to it, often, daily, is more so.

So we're here today to ask you - humbly, fiercely, boldly - to UnthinkThePink, and to make women's health - your health - a conversation that's had all year round.

Join us.

UnthinkThePink

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