How My Sister Died Of Breast Cancer During Awareness Month And My Advice To Ghanaian Women

The month of October is declared breast cancer awareness month all of over the World and symbolised by the colour pink.

Civil society organisations as much as corporate institutions have and are still organising free breast screening for women and breast cancer education are flooding our timelines on social media.

However, it's in the midst of all these that madam Julia painfully lost her elder sister to breast cancer. This will be the third time she has lost close relatives in three month. Breast cancer not cause for all the deaths though.

" I was in a bus coming to Accra from Kumasi when I received a call from a relative about the death of my sister. I wailed in the bus till a young lady approached and consoled me," Julia said in an interview with modernghana.com.

Julia's late sister detected the lump somewhere last year and an operation was done to remove part of the lump. She did mammogram several times and it was then detected in April this year that she had developed breast cancer.

The doctor taking care of her wanted to cut the breast to avoid spread but she refused out of fear and resorted to herbal medicine.

"I tried to convince her to allow the doctor do the surgery which would be best for her but she refused," she noted.

Instead, she opted to go herbal and so visited a herbalist and was charged about GHc10.000 but her situation kept plummeting.

Julia further said, her sister remianed at the herbal hospital and her situation kept worsening so was transferred to three other hospitals in one week but things had gone out of hands leading to her death.

"My only advise to young women is that, no herbs can cure cancer," she averred