About 22,000 women in Bangladesh are being attacked by breast cancer annually and 70 percent of them die due to lack of treatment, experts said on Sunday.
The physicians, who participated in a weeklong program, said every woman should examine her breast once a month from the 20 years of age.
They said every woman must examine her breast once a year by physicians and women above 40 years should go for mammography test of their breast annually.
The experts also stressed the importance of proper food, exercise, breast feeding, accurate dose of birth control pills and avoidance of hormone in helping resist breast cancer.
Source: Xinhua
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