‘More needed to raise breast cancer survival rate’

Tengku Permaisuri Norashikin (centre) visiting a patient at DSH’s Oncology Daycare Unit, accompanied by Petaling Jaya mayor Mohamad Zahri Samingon. — AZLINA ABDULLAH/The Star

MORE needs to be done to promote early detection of breast cancer, a health professional says.

This is because the disease remains the most common cancer among women, both in Malaysia and worldwide, accounting for nearly one-third of cases.