Under the auspices of the Director of Irbid Governorate Health Directorate, Dr. Shadi Bani Hani, and as part of the awareness campaign activities for the month of "Pink October", the International Month for Breast Cancer Awareness, under the slogan "Picture of Life.... Check" and in cooperation with the Jordanian Breast Cancer Program and the Faculty of Medicine at Yarmouk University, an educational awareness lecture entitled “Breast Cancer Awareness and the Importance of Early Screening” was held on Thursday 27/10/2022 at the Comprehensive Health Center of Yarmouk University.
The attendance included a group of mothers and the patients and visitors at the health center, including university employees and YU medical students, in addition to the health center’s staff, with the participation of fifth-year students at FM/YU within the family medicine course. Dr. Yasser Freihat, Director of Yarmouk University Health Center, began the lecture with a welcoming speech to the distinguished guests and attendees, and spoke about the importance of early detection of breast cancer, based on his medical experience.
Then, the trainer Ghada Bakkar, liaison officer of the Jordanian Breast Cancer Program, spoke about the importance of early detection of breast cancer and the mechanism of monthly self-examination, and mentioned the statistics related to the incidence of breast cancer over the past and present years, in addition to explaining the Jordanian program for early detection of breast cancer and the mechanism of its work and how female citizens can access it in the centers spread throughout the Kingdom.
Dr. Dina Qa’adan, the Family Medicine specialist and the Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine at Yarmouk University, spoke about the risk factors for breast cancer, the warning symptoms of breast cancer, how the annual clinical examination works in the clinic, and the emphasis on the importance of the screening annual mammogram for the cases vulnerable to breast cancer, especially those aged 40 years and over, where the disease can be diagnosed in its early stages, thus increasing the chances of survival.
