Hasret Yüksel, a sophomore from the Department of Public Relations and Publicity at the Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences (FEASS) at Istanbul Gelisim University, prepared a poster to emphasize the importance of early detection in Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Yüksel drew attention to the importance of healthy living by bringing the issue back to the agenda with the poster and revealed that everybody, young or old, should be sensitive on this issue. Yüksel stated that the average age of breast cancer patients in Turkey have increased the incidence of the disease and that the rate of this illness rises with increasing age, and said that this theme is studied on in the poster work. Our student also drew attention to the importance of early diagnosis in the study for awareness.
The World Health Organization has designated October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It is known that twenty thousand women are diagnosed with breast cancer on average every year in our country. Since three-quarters of these cases are detected in late stages, awareness studies are important. Early detection saves lives in the breast cancer which is in the top ten most common type of cancer in Turkey and in the first place which causes death in women.
