Talk on Cancer

Emily the palliative nurse, who was visiting my late
mum-in law has recruited me as a volunteer and today
she has invited me to go to Mawar to listen to some
talk given by oncologists on different types of cancer.

I was late by an hour, and when I walked into a
packed room of mostly ladies and teen aged school
children I realised that the talk is conducted in Bahasa.
definitely not strong in that area...
I found my way to where Emily was seated,( with
other palliative volunteers). The talks were interesting
but nothing new to me as I basically know most of the
cancers through reading. What strikes me most was
when one of the doctors showed a live coverage of
an operation done on one of his patient suffering from
ovarian cancer. The tumour weighed 15 kilos and
the sight was enough to make anyone puke! My
instincts tells me that whoever she was, she must be
suffering advance stage of cancer.

The reasons for these talks is to emphasise on
early screening and to bring an awareness of
how some of these cancers can be prevented.
The good news is more people are surviving
cancer and the bad news is more people are
suffering from it.