Communities must play a crucial role in helping to raise cancer awareness. This is according to President of the Organisation for Social Health Advancement in Guyana (OSHAG), Ms Carol Bagot, who emphasised during a recent interview that keen attention must be given to breast cancer which has had a troubling impact on the local society.OSHAG, a not for profit organisation,China Jerseys, is the brainchild of Bagot, a US based Guyanese. The organisation has been one that has over the years been offering support to Guyana particularly in the area of cancer awareness.Moreover, the month of October, which is designated breast cancer awareness month, has been timetabled in OSHAG’s calendar of activities as the time to render support to Guyana.And according to Bagot, OSHAG is currently looking to tailor its efforts to strategically teach women how to recognise breast cancer. “My idea is a pilot project for Guyana whereby we select about 100 women and follow them for about three years…that is something that we are thinking about sharing with the Ministers of Public Health and the Chronic Diseases Section (of the Ministry) to see how we can set up a system like that,” disclosed Bagot.The envisioned project, she disclosed, would entail teaching women the importance of breast self-examination and demonstrating to them how this is done. In fact she spoke of plans to conduct demonstrations using a prosthetic breast to help women discern the feel of cancerous lumps in the breast.Consideration for this ambitious project was premised on worrying revelations earlier this year that breast cancer was the most prevalent cancer recorded in Guyana over a 10-year period.Based on a Surveillance Cancer Report unveiled by the Ministry of Public Health, which examined the prevalence of the various forms of cancer over the period 2003-2012,Cheap NFL Jerseys, it was observed that breast cancer accounted for the most cases recorded. Of the 6000 odd cases,Cheap Jerseys USA, more than 1,Cheap Jerseys Online,000 cases were that of breast cancer. Among the other cases recorded were: cancer of the cervix, prostate,China Jerseys Cheap, colo-rectal, uterus, stomach, lung, ovary and lymphoma.“I saw the statistics and it is very worrying that we are seeing women at stages three and four, and in conversation with some women they are calling it an abscess when it starts, or another thing you find is that they say they have gotten something (medication) and the lump went away and couple weeks after it comes back…it is clear that some women are just not aware,” lamented Bagot.As such she stressed that raising awareness about breast cancer should be one that is especially highlighted at the level of community. “We have all of these regional clinics and health centres and one of the factors I am looking at, is gathering people in the villages and teaching them, particularly women, how to do self-breast examination…” disclosed Bagot as she emphasised her conviction that “I think it should start there (communities) because the strength of Guyana lies in the community.”Added to this,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, Bagot noted that OSHAG is prepared to further help tackle the cancer shortcomings in Guyana by helping to facilitate trips to the United States for identified medical officials to observe how cancer treatment is administered. This process, according to her, is expected to help the Public Health Ministry in its quest to swiftly bring into being a comprehensive cancer treatment programme.