Mammogram

Why you need mammogram ? 

I have seen too many patient of various ages, background and ethnic presented with breast lumps and ended up having breast cancer. The youngest patient i have encountered is in her early 20s. It sadden me as some of these women refused medical treatment, they preferred to opt for traditional medicine and also taking health healing juices, tablets, herbs and even going to shaman who claimed can heal their illness. After a year or two, these women will end up coming to hospital and presented as more advanced disease progression.
I have come about this journal in pubmed;
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjD5deu953dAhUJQY8KHQTEDuQQFjABegQICRAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fpubmed%2F22126511&usg=AOvVaw2REkst-iC6QcrpXVYjlwPM.
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In Summary :
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in Malaysian females.

The Healthy Lifestyles Campaign which started in the early nineties had created awareness on breast cancer and after a decade the effort was enhanced with the Breast Health Awareness program to promote breast self examination (BSE) to all women, to perform annual clinical breast examination (CBE) on women above 40 and mammogram on women above 50.
The current screening policy for breast cancer focuses on CBE whereby all women at the age of 20 years and above must undergo breast examination by trained health care providers every 3 years for age between 20-39 years, and annually for age 40 and above.
Several breast cancer preventive programs had been developed by various ministries in Malaysia; among which are the RM50 subsidy for mammogram by the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development and the SIPPS program (a call-recall system for women to do PAP smear and CBE) by the Ministry of Health.

mammogram images-credit to google.