Breast cancer in Kwa-Zulu Natal

1. Breast Cancer in Kwa-Zulu
Natal
The Citizen.
Online newspaper.

2. KZN hospital goes two months without breast
cancer screening
 Six hundred women had to reschedule
their appointment.
 KwaZulu-Natal hospital mammogram
machine has not worked for at least
two months.
 The hospital had been waiting since
July for authorisation for the machine
to be repaired as well as other crucial
medical equipment, such as its Lodox
machine – a low-dose X-ray machine
used in hospital trauma wards.

3. Ngwelezana Hospital in KZN
 Ngwelezana Hospital caters for residents of
the Zululand, King Cetshwayo and
uMkhanyakude districts, which, according to
2011 census data, have a combined
population of about three million people.
 On average, 60 000 new patients visit the
hospital every year, with an average of 7 700
patients needing treatment every month.
 Madlala said when their breast cancer testing
machine was in working order the hospital
carried out an average of five mammograms
a day

4. The machines
 The Lodox machine and X- Ray
machine is required to conduct the
screening test for breast cancer.
 For both these machines quotations
have been requested and were sent
to HTS.

5. Leading type of disease.
 Keeka said breast cancer was one of
the leading types of the disease in
women in the province.
 Breast cancer is the second leading
cause of cancer death among
women. Each year it is estimated that
over 252,710 women in the United
States will be diagnosed with breast
cancer and more than 40,500 will die.

6. Working together makes a difference.
 Last year the Health MEC Dr
Sibongiseni Dhlomo said in a
statement released on World Cancer
Day that ‘Working together, we can
beat cancer,” said Keeka.