Grant to help Kuching cancer awareness group boost rural outreach


KUCHING: The Society for Cancer Advocacy and Awareness Kuching (SCAN) has received a grant from the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) for its breast cancer outreach project in rural Sarawak.

SCAN's year-long project aims to increase survival rates for women with breast cancer by training frontline health personnel to recognise the signs and symptoms of breast abnormalities through clinical breast examinations.

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