Latakia-SANA
With faith and determination, the fifty-year-old teacher in Lattakia, Waheeda Ahmed Hassan, continues to challenge cancer, which she discovered in 2015.
Waheeda tells SANA reporter the story of her discovery of the disease after suffering from heavy menstrual bleeding for a long time, which led to a hysterectomy, during which it was found that there were abnormal cells of no more than one and a half centimeters in one of the ovaries. And to stop eating sugar and rely on grains and vegetables while avoiding eating bread as much as possible for 6 years, but she returned to feeling very high and after consulting the doctor, she discovered the development of her condition and the need to undergo chemotherapy because she did not treat her condition from the beginning.
Waheeda started the stage of treatment and receiving chemical doses, and she is now in a stable condition, according to her description, but she confirms in her speech that the setback of her health condition was due to her neglect and negligence in receiving treatment, advising all women not to ignore the initial symptoms and to undergo treatment directly.
Waheeda praised the national campaign for early detection of cancer because it is free and contributes to correcting the disease in its infancy, especially since she lived through this experience and the delay in obtaining treatment.
In turn, Dr. Nader Abdullah, Head of the Medical Oncology Division at Tishreen University Hospital, who supervised a single case, explained that she went to the hospital at the beginning of the disease and the recovery rate was very high, but as a result of her neglect and resorting to an alternative treatment that has no scientific basis, her treatment was delayed and led to a relapse of her condition, and the disease became an advanced degree compared to with the diagnosis.
He said: "The patient is currently undergoing chemotherapy in the hope that her response to it will be good and she will get her chance of recovery, even though the golden opportunity was at the initial diagnosis," stressing the need not to ignore the disease in its infancy and to do periodic examinations to be reassured and to be able to correct it before it escalates to difficult degrees. With her full recovery.
Alaa Ibrahim
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