Fighting breast cancer

Experts say it is curable, if detected early.  Yet, breast cancer has become one of the two most fearful cancers killing more women than any other.

I have been agonising lately hearing one after the other the sad news of the passing of some lovely women as a result of the ferocious disease - breast cancer.  I have been greatly distressed because the stories I hear concerning the losses are almost similar and so I keep asking myself, “What could have saved them”?  The fact is any woman, young or old, could become a victim just as the ladies I once knew and who are no more.

A cousin’s wife is the latest victim to have died of breast cancer just a few weeks ago.  Recounting the sad loss of his wife with so much grief and at a point asking rhetorically, “But she was cured, so why did she die?”  I felt his pain and his disappointment as we spoke.  Not that the wife did not detect the disease early enough.  She surely did, some two or three years ago, when she was told the