The president of Breast Care International urged men to handle the
breast of women with care as it is a very fragile part of a woman’s
anatomy.
Speaking on the sidelines of the breast cancer awareness month
which is celebrated in October every year, Dr. Wiafe-Addai told Starr Fm
morning show host Francis Abban that contrary to claims that the
sucking of breast by men reduces the risk of getting breast cancer in
women, those claims are untrue.
“It is not true that the more you suck a woman’s breast it
prevents the risk of getting breast cancer. What is true is that women
who have children should breastfeed, and breastfeeding has some positive
effect on the woman as far as breast cancer is concerned. But not adult
men to go and suck the breast thinking it will protect the woman from
breast cancer, that is not true, it is very fragile so let’s handle it
with care…don’t squeeze it like you have some mango or orange that you
are squeezing to get some fluid out,” Dr. Wiafe-Addai counselled.
Dr. Wiafe-Addai also advised men not to abandon women diagnosed with breast cancer but rather help to fight it.
“If you find something in a woman’s breast don’t send her to
her family home because she has been diagnosed of breast cancer. Give
her all the morale even if not financial. So that she knows that someone
is with her through the fight. The fight against breast cancer is not
an easy one so women need all the support from men, society and the
nation,” she noted.
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