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THE Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) is working with its partners to dispel cancer-related myths and raise awareness of the importance of early detection and prevention.
The ministry organised a workshop for about 100 social workers and psychologists in public primary and secondary schools on awareness and correcting misconceptions about cancer in collaboration with Hamad Medical Corporation, Primary Health Care Corporation and Qatar Cancer Society.
During the workshop, several important topics related to cancer were discussed, including the role of partners in cancer awareness, identification, risk factors, signs, symptoms and prevention through a healthy lifestyle that includes protection from sunlight, nutrition, physical activity, abstaining from tobacco consumption, and correcting misconceptions about cancer.
They also discussed the importance of early diagnosis, screening and disease-related services in Qatar, as well as the experience of Qatar Cancer Society in cancer prevention programmes in schools and how schools can help prevent cancer.
The workshop is part of a worldwide initiative to combat the global cancer epidemic, focusing on dispelling myths about cancer.
Head of the Health Promotion and Non-Communicable Diseases at the ministry DrKholoodal Mutawa said that the National Cancer Strategy states that besides the need to uncover the beliefs and misconceptions surrounding cancer, there is an urgent need to raise awareness and disseminate more information about the disease.
She pointed out that awareness of the disease by making it part of the school curriculum for children is one of the effective ways to reach a wide audience.
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