2008 Activities ...
 

Belinda Bateman’s Amazing Journey at The ATTIC, Kuala Lumpur – 27 Mar 2008
Belinda Bateman is a single mother with a 4 year old daughter. She was born with congenital arthogryposis multiplex and in December 2006, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She developed a recurrence of breast cancer only recently! Yet, Belinda still manages to smile despite barely making ends meet.

Read more here!

Estée Lauder Companies' Cheque Presentation, Kuala Lumpur – 30 Jan 2008
The Estée Lauder Companies 2007 Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign was a great success. In 2007, there was the annual charity auction, golf, gala dinner and the Landmark Illumination Programme to increase awareness, create more hype to help win the fight against breast cancer. Together with the Breast Cancer Welfare Association, the funds raised were sizeable and each of the following organisations were beneficiaries: Breast Cancer Welfare Association, National Cancer Society of Malaysia and College of Radiology, Academy of Medicine of Malaysia.

At a lunch hosted by ELC on 30 Jan 2008 at the Crystal Jade Restaurant, The Gardens, Mid Valley City, cheques of RM 100,000 were presented to Dr Evelyn Ho, College of Radiology and Dr Saunthari Dharmalingam, National Cancer Society of Malaysia. Mr Loo Kai Nan (Managing Director), Sharyn Wong (Chairperson of the Breast Cancer Awareness Committee 2007) and Mdm Tan Quee Siew played hosts. Also present at the lunch was Barbara Khoo, Executive Director of the Breast Cancer Welfare Association, and Clare Ratnasingham of the National Cancer Society.
 

Jessica Lew,
18 years old

Radiology Malaysia Fun Quiz 2006 Winner:
“I really did enjoy
myself very much that day listening to performances by
Vincent Chong and
Juwita Suwito and the food at Zuho Restaurant. Even though I didn’t win any of the prizes I
deeply wished to win, I did win something -
more knowledge and information about breast cancer programmes that the College of Radiology organized... like the
value added mammogram programme in the East Coast and
how Sandakan started their own breast cancer awareness activities.
With the pamphlets
given in the goodie bag, I shared the information
by putting them up in
my classroom
 information board. It's very enlightening for my friends and teachers to read. Many of them are very ignorant about breast cancer.

Even though my class
has male students and male teachers, I don’t think it's a problem for them to read about it too. (Knowledge ought
to be shared!).
As for the pink stress ball, I have given it to
my homeroom teacher
as teachers have more stress than students
after all!!

Curb False Advertising for Cancer Detection

“The rampant advertising and reporting of scientifically unproven methods of screening, diagnosis and treatment to the public accompanied by wrong information and false promises of accurate detection of cancers is a blatant crime."

Get the full text of Ms Ranjit Kaur’s speech at the Novartis-MBCC Breast Cancer Leadership Award Presentation 2005.