Rwanda: More Efforts Are Needed to Fight Breast Cancer, Say Medics

24 October 2014

Breast cancer patients, caretakers and other individuals from the community have been called on to reinforce efforts in combating the disease.

A group of doctors, surgeons, nurses, radiologists and experts from the Ministry of Health, meeting at a national symposium on the management of breast cancer in Kigali, on Wednesday, said with several breast cancer control measures already in place in hospitals, the growing concern is that these alone cannot be sufficient to address the fight against the disease, especially in women.

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