Dr. Beatrice Addae Wiafe, the founder of Breast Care International (BCI), has counseled the populace, particularly young women, to refrain from excessive alcohol consumption, shisha smoking, and the use of bleaching products on their skin as these are some of the risk factors for breast cancer.
Dr. Wiafe said at a rally following the BCI breast cancer walk in Accra on Saturday that while there is no known cause of breast cancer, there are some risk factors that can result in developing the disease. As a result, she advised both men and women to live healthy lives and steer clear of those risk factors.
“Previously, Ghanaian women were not into this smoking of shisha but now we have a lot of women smoking, especially our young women.
One puff of shisha equals 10 rolls of cigarettes and if care is not taken, we would have a lot more of our women dealing with all sorts of cancers”.
“Lack of exercise and lately the chemicals that some women bleach with have all been found as risk factors,” she added.
