A Walkathon to promote awareness about breast cancer was held on the roads of city on Sunday. The event was organised under the aegis of Max Hospital Dehradun as part of breast cancer awareness month.
The event was flag off by Senior Superintendent (SSP), Police Intelligence, Sweety Agarwal. large number of college girls and women actively participated in the walk. The participants walked through Rajpur road, BEHl Chowk and Subhash road shouting slogans for fight against cancer.
This year's theme for breast cancer is focused about getting the idea across that breast cancer is curable if detected in early stages. Experts say that if detected early, in first or second stage, the chances of it being cured can go up to 90 percent.
Sweety Agarwal while addressing the audience said, “lot of women doesn’t take care of themselves. They are so occupied with family and work that they hardly get time to notice what is going wrong in their bodies. And self examination and monitoring will be the first step to detect for symptoms of breast cancer. Getting screened frequently is the only option left to fight the disease. Being one step ahead of the cancer is what this walk walkathon is all about.’’
The medical oncologist Dr Vimal Pandita, surgical oncologist Dr Mahesh Sultania, and vice President operations Dr Sandeep Singh Tanwar were also present on the ocassion.