A webinar Breast Cancer was organised by Staff-Club, CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur for the awareness of staff members and their families about the disease “Breast Cancer”. Especially the female members of the staff and their families benefited from the lecture.
Natasha Das, cofounder and director of Hazlo Consultancy Pvt. Ltd., having over 20 years of experience in conducting such awareness programs elaborated on the need and process of self-examination and early detection of the disease Breast Cancer. The speaker explained that self-examination can timely detect the disease and can save 92% of lives up to stage 3. She also explained the importance of yearly clinical examinations of females over 40 years and for females below 40 the examination should be done after every three years. She also discussed the risk factors of the disease, apart from having a family history, unhealthy diet, alcohol, smoking and obesity, and late motherhood i.e. after 30 years of age, and least or no breastfeeding can increase the chances of the disease in females. She also highlighted that males can also have this disease and usually are diagnosed at a later stage.
In the second part of the program, Dr. Priyanka Singh, Medical Officer, CSIR-NML explained the disease “Cervical Cancer” & the vaccine to prevent the disease in girls and boys from 9 to 15 years of age, which is up to 25 years of age (unmarried children) in Indian Context. She also discussed the Flu vaccines that are good for children and elderly people. The Flu vaccines can also help in fighting Covid-19 vaccines. The aforementioned vaccines are available in Red Cross Society, Jamshedpur.
Dr. Debarati Chattoraj, the Chief Guest of the program reemphasized the need for clinical examination at a regular interval. Over 70 participants attended the lecture including the ladies from the Janitorial staff, project staff, casual staff, staff families, and permanent staff. The lectures were delivered in “Hindi” for the benefit of the majority of the attendees. The program was conducted in both online and offline modes.
The people involved in the organisation of the event were Dr. Indranil Chattoraj, Director-NML, Dr. Arvind Sinha, Advisor Management, Dr. MM. Humane, Vice-President Staff Club, Dr. Beena Kumari, Lalit Meena, Krishna Kumar, Suman Parmarth, Nayeem Ansari, Pankaj, Subhojeet Banerjee, Dr. Sarmistha Sagar, K Sudhakar Rao, Pawan, Ms. Priya Nag and heads of all R&D divisions and Support divisions and others.