Cancer Awareness is the key to early detection. Get to know your body and attend to cancer signs NOW.

Understanding how the different types of cancer affect your body, and being aware of these changes, is a good start.

CANCER CAUTION - do you have any of the following?

C hange in bowel habits – constipation and/or diarrhoea for no reason?
A sore that won’t heal?
U nusual bleeding or discharge? Blood when you go to the toilet? Vomiting or coughing up blood?
T hickening or lumpiness in any part of the body?
I ndigestion or difficulty in swallowing? Loss of appetite, or weight loss that’s hard to explain?
O bvious changes in a wart or a mole?
N agging cough or hoarseness?

All the signs and symptoms of cancer listed here may be due to other causes. See your doctor for diagnosis.

Screening is carried out before any symptoms appear in a person, but helps to detect cancers in pre-cancerous stages or in their early stages.