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messaging. “There is a mentality that ‘cancer doesn’t happen to me, it happens to someone else’, because so many health screening and information materials only feature Caucasian women. If you don’t see yourself represented, you think all those awareness messages aren’t for you,” Dr Arif says.
V has been very open about her experience, and encourages anyone in her position to seek medical care at the earliest possible opportunity. From a cultural perspective, she says there are still huge taboos within Indian and South Asian communities. “When I first said I was going to write publicly about my experience, my mum was a bit scared about what people would think.
Clearly, it’s a complex, multifaceted picture, with different issues particularly pertinent within different communities. The solutions are similarly complex, but Dr Olaitan believes it must begin with education on racial bias and cultural sensitivities for healthcare professionals, as well as awareness-raising campaigns that feature and reach out to ethnic minority women.
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