2 weeks Ago By The Straits Times
Lim Sheow Lei Healthcare professionals can play a key role in fostering open and non-judgmental communication with patients. Usually an active person, 65-year-old Madam Chan began feeling weak and stopped taking part in her regular taiji and mahjong sessions. A blood test revealed she was severely anaemic.
Other tests showed that the housewife had Stage 4 uterine (womb) cancer that had spread to the lungs. Madam Chan could have received treatment at a much earlier stage, it turns out. She had been experiencing abnormal vaginal bleeding for the previous three years, but kept it from her family and suffered in silence.
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