Ceylinco offers free breast care consultations

Free breast care consultations with doctors will be available to women by the Ceylinco Healthcare Centre in Colombo next month, dedicated universally to breast cancer awareness.

The centre, the most advanced stand-alone private facility for cancer screening in Sri Lanka, said the objective of this programme is to provide advice and information to women on how to prevent breast cancer through regular self-examination and screening, the centre said.

The free consultations will be on appointment and will comprise of a physical examination by a doctor, who will also provide guidelines and awareness on proper breast care.

The focus of the Ceylinco Healthcare Centre every October is to encourage women to undergo Mammograms, a screening procedure recommended to be done regularly by women over the age of 40.

In Sri Lanka, breast cancer is the commonest form of cancer among females, and accounts for 22.5 percent of all cancers in women.This alarming situation can be reversed if more women are made aware that mammography can detect a cancer up to two years before it is large enough to be felt, and that cancers detected early can often be cured.