Know more on breast cancer without any uncomfortable feeling through a visual metaphor of a guava fruit
Know The Jambu Within You is an illustrative website platform to educate Malaysian women on breast cancer awareness. Women must check regularly on their breast condition by the techniques recommended by a health expert.
Why?
In research stated that Malaysian women has a higher rate up to 80% of them who are suffering from breast cancer. This is because there is no early prevention and a few factor that leads to this disease .
Guava is used as a visual metaphor to represent the breast of a women due to it has a similarity to the breast anatomy. The Malaysian culture used the term “jambu” to represents “beauty” or womanly.
Lifestyle
Being physically active, achieving and maintaining a healthy weight, limiting alcohol and to a lesser degree, eating fruits and vegetables may help lower your risk of breast cancer
“It is important to promote breast cancer screening in all women for early diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer”
Get In Touch
Breast Cancer Welfare Association Malaysia (BCWA)
5th Floor, Bangunan Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah, 16 Jalan Utara,
46200 Petaling Jaya,Selangor, Malaysia
Tel: (603) 7954 0133
Fax: (603) 7954 0122
Email: info@breastcancer.org.my
