Sucking Breast Cannot Prevent Breast Cancer -Dr Warns

The CEO of Breast Care International Ghana, Dr Mrs Beatrice Wiafe-Addae, has has warned against the assertion that sucking or fondling of the breast prevents breast cancer.

Dr Mrs Wiafe-Addae, was speaking at a forum to create awareness on breast cancer at Kitase, near Aburi, in the Akuapem South Municipality in the Eastern Region. Dr Adea rather urged women to focus on early detection by frequent checks to seek medical attention.

According to Dr Mrs Wiafe-Addae, women or men who took in alcoholic beverages and smoked cigarettes and other harmful substances had a high risk of contracting breast cancer.

She pointed out that there were over 4,600 women diagnosed with breast cancer and about 2,000 of them died with the disease in Ghana and, therefore, appealed to the students to regularly go for breast cancer screening to ensure that they were free from it.