‘Muslimah World’: Indonesians Hold Islam’s Answer to Miss World
New Age Islam News Bureau
14
Sept 2013
Photo: Muslim women stage a protest against the Miss
World beauty pageant contest this month. (AFP)
• Tajik Woman Detained For Recruiting Fighters for Jihad
• Bill to Stop Child Marriages in Sindh, Pakistan Soon
• UN Agency Says there’s ‘Backlash’ Against Equality for
Women
• Sidra Symposium Calls For Focus on Breastfeeding as
National Initiative In Qatar
• Women More Prone To Depression: Shrink
• Bangladeshi Woman Discovers Her Relatives after 35
Years in Pakistan
• Saudi Who Had a Run-In with Haia Claims Harassment
• Palestinian Seeks Husband’s Body, Held by Syrian
Rebels
• New Breast Cancer Drug Approved
Compiled
by New Age Islam News Bureau
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‘Muslimah World’: Indonesians Hold Islam’s Answer to
Miss World
14 September 2013
The Miss World beauty contest held this year in
Indonesia has attracted vehement opposition by Islamic groups in the nation,
who have in response set up a rivalling beauty pageant only for Muslims.
The Muslimah World contest is Islam’s answer to Miss
World, according to its founder Eka Shanti, and is to be held on Wednesday in
the Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital.
“Muslimah World is a beauty pageant, but the
requirements are very different from Miss World - you have to be pious, be a
positive role model and show how you balance a life of spirituality in today’s
modernized world,” Shanti told AFP.
20 Muslimah World finalists were chosen from more than
500 who took part in an online selection process.
The process involved the competitors reciting the
Quran and sharing anecdotes of how they can to wear the headscarf, which is a
requirement of the show.
The competition’s finalists hail from countries with
large Muslim populations, including Bangladesh, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria and
Brunei.
The finalists will wear fashionable yet Islamic
garments in what Shanti says is an opportunity to show young Muslim women that
they do not need to show their hair and bare shoulders to be considered
beautiful.
Diverse
However, Shanti said that she did not support calls to
cancel the Miss World contest, saying the Indonesia was a religiously diverse
country.
“We don’t just want to shout ‘no’ to Miss World. We’d
rather show our children they have choices. Do you want to be like the women in
Miss World? Or like those in Muslimah World?” said Shanti, according to AFP.
After unrelenting protests, Indonesian government
officials said last week that the Miss World final would be shifted to Bali,
which has a Hindu majority population who do not oppose the contest.
Miss World pageant in response dropped the bikini from
one of its rounds. So far, the show has attracted more than a month of protests
demanding that the show is terminated.
Some protestors have burnt effigies of the organizers
and have called the contest “pornographic.”
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2013/09/14/-Muslimah-World-Indonesians-hold-Islam-s-answer-to-Miss-World.html
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Tajik Woman Detained For Recruiting Fighters For Jihad
By RFE/RL's Tajik Service
September 11, 2013
DUSHANBE -- A 37-year-old woman in Dushanbe has been
detained for allegedly helping recruit and send men to fight in jihadist
groups.
Court documents surfaced on September 11 showing
Nigina Toshkhojaeva had helped two men wanted in Tajikistan to flee the country
to join terrorist groups in Afghanistan.
Tajik authorities say both were members of the Islamic
Movement of Turkestan.
Toshkhojaeva was apprehended at the Dushanbe airport
with another man who is suspected of "going for jihad" to
Afghanistan.
Toshkhojaeva's husband is in an Afghan jail after
being caught and sentenced for membership in a terrorist group.
Toshkhojaeva faces charges of organizing and leading
an illegal group and of helping recruit Tajik citizens to fight abroad.
http://www.rferl.org/content/tajikistan-arrest-afghan-jihad/25103259.html
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Bill to Stop Child Marriages in Sindh, Pakistan Soon
September 14,
2013
KARACHI - Sindh Minister for Women Development,
Special Education and Social Welfare Departments, Rubina Saadat Qaimkhani on
Thursday unveiled that a bill would be presented in Sindh Assembly about making
a law to fix maximum 18-year age limit for both bride and groom for marriage
with proposing imprisonment and fine to stop early marriages in the province.
She announced this while talking to the media during a
visit to the Karachi Press Club on Thursday. She added that if any parent was
found involved in arranging a marriage for his/her daughter before reaching the
age proposed in the law would be sentenced with one year imprisonment and a
huge fine.
She said the bill for Child Marriage Act would be
tabled in Sindh Assembly to convert it into law so that child marriages could
be stopped. She said that a consultative session with the civil society, media
and Ulema was underway and soon a bill would be tabled in the provincial
assembly.
Rubina said two percent job quota for disabled would
be implemented with letter and spirit in Women Development, Special Education
and Social Welfare departments after withdrawal of ban imposed on jobs.
The minister said provincial government was also
planning to establish Women Complaint Centres in every district of Sindh. The
implementation on the law against sexual harassment on women at workplaces
would be implemented in letter and spirit.
She said all the three departments of her ministry
would be equipped with latest technology with coordination of provincial
government and foreign donors.
She said Sindh child protection bill had already been
passed in the province and soon it would be implemented.
On the occasion, Rubina announced Rs0.3 million as
grant for Karachi Press Club on the behalf of her department.
http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/karachi/13-Sep-2013/bill-to-stop-child-marriages-soon
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UN Agency Says there’s ‘Backlash’ Against Equality for
Women
September 14,
2013
UNITED NATIONS — The new head of the UN agency promoting
women’s rights says there is “a definite backlash” against equality for women
despite some significant progress, pointing to an upsurge in violence against
women and the uphill fight to escape poverty and crack the glass ceiling.
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, who was South Africa’s first
female deputy president, said that 18 years after world leaders adopted a
blueprint to achieve equality for women at a UN conference in Beijing there are
still major economic and social barriers and new crimes to confront including
trafficking of women and girls and cyber bullying.
“All of those means that we do need to go back to the
drawing boards and strengthen the mechanisms and options that we have to engage
in the fight to advance women’s equality and emancipation,” she said in an
interview Wednesday.
Mlambo-Ngcuka said the campaign for equality of the
sexes has been dominated by women and it needs to be broadened to include boys
and men as well as the private sector.
“You need men — you just cannot crack these issues
without winning over men,” she said. “We need to win the priests, the rabbis,
the traditional chiefs” to tackle religious and cultural barriers.
UN Women was created three years ago by the General
Assembly to combine four UN bodies dealing with the advancement of women under
a single umbrella. Its first leader, former Chilean president Michelle
Bachelet, stepped down to run for president again.
As the second executive director, Mlambo-Ngcuka said
she plans to take “a very collaborative approach” with the 193 UN member
states, other UN offices and agencies, and civil society groups “who are
crucial for success.” Bachelet’s greatest success came in March when 131
conservative Muslim and Roman Catholic countries and liberal Western nations
approved a UN blueprint to combat violence against women and girls. Data from
the World Health Organization and other research has shown that an average of
40 percent — and up to 70 percent of women in some countries — face violence in
their lifetimes.
Ending violence against women and girls remains a top
priority for UN Women, and Mlambo-Ngcuka said she wants to take this campaign
to every city in the world and mobilize local governments, non-governmental
organizations, religious leaders and interested citizens to fight the scourge
and create safe communities.
UN Women’s other priorities include expanding women’s
leadership, economic empowerment and participation in peace and security
efforts. “Women’s voices need to be heard in the household, on corporate
boards, in peace talks, and in public institutions,” Mlambo-Ngcuka told a news
conference Thursday.
“Women need equal access to education, opportunities,
and to economic resources such as credit and land, and to justice,” she said.
“Women need to have choices and for this sexual and reproductive health and
reproductive rights are essential.”
Access to finance for women is a big issue,
Mlambo-Ngcuka said, and she will be pressing for more small loans to help women
escape poverty but also for “big bucks” to help them climb the economic ladder.
“There’s no reason why women should not be in the
commanding heights of economy,” she said, pointing to the success of women in
China from rural areas and poor families who have been able to “crack the city
and crack the big markets.”
Looking ahead, Mlambo-Ngcuka said “the elephant in the
room” is money.
In 2012, UN Women’s revenue was $220 million and its
expenses were $235 million. This year, she said the agency needs $100 million
to end 2013 “in a healthy way.”
Mlambo-Ngcuka said one of her immediate priorities is
to expand the donor base and try to tap the private sector, foundations,
philanthropists and private individuals. Much greater investment is needed to
“help us do things with real people in real situations” to promote equality for
women,” she said.
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20130914180365
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Sidra Symposium Calls For Focus On Breastfeeding As
National Initiative In Qatar
September 14,
2013
Sidra Medical and Research Centre (SMRC) yesterday
held a symposium to address the need to focus on breastfeeding as a national
programme as well as to raise awareness about the social and health
consequences of inadequate breastfeeding rates and the use of artificial
formula in Qatar.
With a breastfeeding rate of 12% in Qatar, which is
among the lowest regionally, experts explored ways in which Qatar can reach the
National Health Strategy (NHS)’s breastfeeding objectives.
World Health Organisation (WHO)/Unicef’s Baby-friendly
Hospital Initiative (BFHI) was discussed as one such programme, which, if
implemented as a national initiative, would support Qatar in reaching the NHS
objectives.
The symposium called for the implementation of BFHI
nationally as one of the initiatives to increase exclusive breastfeeding rates
in Qatar.
The symposium moderated by Sidra’s deputy chief
medical officer and founder of the Sidra Symposia Series, Dr Joachim
Dudenhausen, featured local and international speakers, including Randa Saadeh,
who recently retired as director of the Nutrition in the Life Course Unit,
Nutrition Department at WHO; Dr Shaheen Manzur, general practitioner at Dukhan
Medical Centre and founder of the first breastfeeding clinic at the primary
care level in Qatar; and Laura Fisher, business manager of Step2 Education - an
online education company that assists institutions striving to achieve the
baby-friendly designation.
“We need to raise awareness of the critical role
healthcare professionals play in promoting breastfeeding and the issues we
experience here in Qatar by failing to create an environment where women and
families are able to breastfeed or find help and support with breastfeeding.
The speakers gathered for this symposium are pioneering the promotion of
breastfeeding as a common practice both in Qatar and internationally, and we
hope it will help us make greater strides in meeting the NHS goals,” Dr
Dudenhausen said.
Unicef data from 2005, the latest available, reported
the exclusive breastfeeding rate in Qatar as being 12% in the early months of
infancy. Project 3.8 of the NHS (2010) identifies increasing exclusive
breastfeeding rates to 25% as a key concept (project 3.8.1) to improve the
health of newborns, infants and women.
Improving breastfeeding rates will also have a positive
influence on reaching other key health targets identified in the NHS as
breastfeeding has lifelong health and social benefits for mothers and their
babies.
Hospitals can achieve the baby-friendly designation if
external reviewers evaluate them as adhering to each of the “Ten Steps for
Successful Breastfeeding” and the “International Code of Marketing of
Breast-milk Substitutes”, something Sidra is integrating into all clinical
planning.
During the symposium, Saadeh discussed BFHI, a global
movement launched in 1991, detailing challenges in its implementation and the
steps needed to move forward to ensure the best start for all Qatari children.
BFHI seeks to implement practices that protect,
promote and encourage breastfeeding. It also aims to improve the role maternity
services play in educating mothers about the importance of breastfeeding by
improving the care pregnant women, mothers and newborns receive at healthcare
facilities.
Saadeh said she hoped Qatar implements it across
hospitals in the country. “I hope that Sidra becomes the key driver of BFHI
implementation throughout Qatar and the region.”
Dr Manzur touched upon the health and social
consequences of low breastfeeding rates in Qatar. “Far too many mothers give up
breastfeeding quickly after their child’s birth because of the false impression
of insufficient milk supply, insufficient support from their husbands, families
and health providers as well as lack of education.There is a growing need for
education and professional assistance to ensure mothers and their families are
taught the skills they need to succeed because family support is a key factor
in initiating and sustaining breastfeeding,” she said.
The symposium marked the fifth event of the Sidra
Symposia Series, a quarterly medical conference hosted and organised by SMRC.
The series is designed to address the most important
topics facing women’s and children’s healthcare in the region and share medical
knowledge, research and best practices. Request to attend future events can be
sent to events@sidra.org.
http://www.gulf-times.com/qatar/178/details/365522/sidra-symposium-calls-for-focus-on-breastfeeding-as-national-initiative
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Women more prone to depression: Shrink
September 14,
2013
AL-KHOBAR — Head of medical services at Dammam’s
Al-Amal Mental Hospital Dr. Waleed Al-Melhem said women are more prone to
depression. In comments made to Al-Hayat newspaper recently, he called for
greater understanding of the disorder.
Al-Melhem, who is a consultant psychiatrist, said
depression represents the majority of cases that are treated at the hospital
and called upon the concerned authorities to prevent sorcerers from using herbs
and other methods to treat depression.
According to Al-Melhem, the most common causes of
depression are: loss of a child, a loved one, a friend, money or prestige. In
addition, hereditary factors, the patient’s readiness, life and social
pressures also contribute to the condition.
“Al-Amal Hospital works like one team, consisting of
doctors, psychiatrists and specialists to evaluate such conditions and
recommend an appropriate treatment. Urgent cases are admitted immediately to
the hospital, while other patients are given appointments to visit outpatient
clinics,” he said.
The expert said sorcerers are one of the major reasons
behind society’s negative view of depression and other mental conditions.
“Some of these so-called healers actually convince
patients that the medication which was prescribed to them by qualified medical
doctors actually worsens their condition. This in turn causes patients doubt
the psychiatric treatment they are receiving,” he said.
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20130914180314
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Bangladeshi Woman Discovers Her Relatives after 35
Years in Pakistan
NABEEL ANWAR DHAKKU
2013-09-14
CHAKWAL: It is an account of a shattered life; a life
devastated by criminals involved in women trafficking.
The year was 1978 when her husband died. Two months
later, Ayesha Bibi gave birth to a baby boy in Dacca, the capital of
Bangladesh. By that time her parents had already died.
Due to poverty, her relatives also gave her a cold
shoulder.
She was trying to get on with life by labouring in the
houses of wealthy people. But the arrival of a baby boy forced Ayesha to
rethink about her financial worries.
“Someone told me that one could get a handsome amount
of wage by working in Karachi and I made up my mind to migrate to Pakistan,”
Ayesha Bibi recounts as she talks to Dawn in Nara Mughlan, the remotest village
on the eastern side of Chakwal district.
“Taking the widowed and poor Bangladeshi women to
Pakistan was a thriving business running secretly after the 1971 War,” she
remembers.
Ayesha was a typical illiterate woman and vulnerable
to fall prey to the traffickers. An agent of ‘women trade mafia’ assured her
that he would take her to Karachi which was a ‘city of lights’ and ‘a land of
opportunities’ at that time.
Ayesha, 64, does not know the name of that agent. “If
you want to take your child along you have to pay Rs3,000 and if you leave the
child behind I would only take Rs2,000,” the agent told Ayesha. Being a mother
how could she opt for the second option? “My child was the sole ray of hope for
me who could mitigate my pains and I arranged three thousand rupees in the hope
of getting a new lease of life,” she stated.
As the diplomatic relations between Pakistan and the
then seven-year-old Bangladesh were strained due to the 1971 war, the long
journey into the lights of Karachi was to be taken illegally, keeping out of
the sight of security forces of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
“I was not only one woman but there were many other
hapless women in the convoy,” she said. Ayesha does not remember the date or
month of that dark journey but she does know that they set out in the summer.
“The journey was really hard as we travelled only by nights and spent the
daytime by hiding in the crops of sugarcanes and cotton.” According to her, she
and other women were kept on the outskirts of Delhi for six days and then reached
Lahore after 10 days. “From Dacca to Lahore it took us 16 days,” she
maintained.
The agent took the women to Karachi and sold them to a
man whose name according to Ayesha was Shamsul Haque. “Shamsul Haq resold five
of us to another person at the rate of Rs5, 000 each,” she recalled.
Here entered Mirza Mohammad Hussain who belonged to
Nara Mughlan village of Chakwal and was posted in Karachi as a soldier of
Pakistan Army. He had lost his wife and was in search of another one. How did
he reach Ayesha is a mystery but he expressed his desire of marrying her and
Ayesha accepted it. “He was much older than me and was about to retire from the
army but despite being young I decided to marry him as I badly needed a person
who could support me,” she said.
After retiring from the army, Mirza Hussain joined a
private organisation and served there for a few years. The couple, including
Ayesha’s child, returned to Nara Mughlan village two decades back.
Ayesha did not bear any child from Hussain and the
couple focussed on bringing up the sole son Ayesha bore from her first husband
in Dacca.
Ayesha’s son Sajid Mehmood now works in Islamabad with
a private organisation. Ayesha’s husband passed away in 1997.
After his death, life became harder for Ayesha as
Hussain’s relatives snatched all the property she owned. “They subjected me to
severe torture. They tried to stop my husband’s pension by writing a fake
letter to the army that I had married again.”
Due to the torture by Hussain’s cousins, Ayesha had to
take refuge in a shelterhome.
Ayesha’s language was Bangali but now after spending
35 years in Pakistan she neither has any grip on her mother tongue nor can
speak Punjabi and Urdu fluently.
Recently, a Bangladeshi couple from Karachi went to
Dacca and they informed the relatives of Ayesha about her.
Ayesha’s niece phoned Ayesha three months back. Both
aunt and niece never saw each other before as Ayesha’s niece had not born when
she left Dacca in 1978. “For many minutes, we both kept on weeping and could
not utter a single word,” she said.
Ayesha, who is now dying to visit her native country,
looks for help as she neither knows the means of travelling abroad nor has
money to get her passport and visa. “I have only one desire now and that is to
meet my nephews and nieces,” she said.
http://www.dawn.com/news/1042715/bangladeshi-woman-discovers-her-relatives-after-35-years
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Saudi who had a run-in with Haia claims harassment
September 14,
2013
UNAIZAH — A man who claimed members of the Commission
for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia) bullied him and
harassed his wife vowed to fight for his rights till the end.
“I will not relinquish my right nor my wife’s right
whatever happens,” Muhammad told Al-Jazirah Arabic daily. Muhammad requested
the interview to talk about the recent run-in he had with the Haia members in
Unaizah, Qassim.
The Saudi national said he had an appointment with a
contractor who is building his new home in Al-Khuzama district.
He said he waited for the contractor at the location,
which is the highest point in the district.
After an angry telephone conversation with the
contractor over constant delays in construction, he said he left the place
accompanied by his wife.
After a few meters, he noticed that he was being
followed by another car and the driver was signalling for him to stop. The car
belonged to the Haia and Muhammad stopped and disembarked from his vehicle.
“Immediately, he demanded that I present my identity
card. He asked whether a woman was accompanying me. I said, ‘Yes, she is my
wife’.” He asked me to present my family registration card.”
Muhammad said he was surprised at the request to prove
he was married to his wife and instead asked the Haia member whether he was
wanted or whether there were any violations registered against his.
“His reply was: I have no right to ask questions and
it is only the Haia members who can ask.”
At this point, Muhammad said he asked the Haia member
to prove that he was officially working for the commission.
He refused and Muhammad got back into his car and
drove to King Saud Hospital where his wife wanted to visit her sister who had
recently undergone a surgery.
After arriving at the hospital, Muhammad and his wife
were greeted by two men who claimed to be from the Haia.
“I hurried toward them and scolded them. The security
guards and several witnesses saw the scene. The two men wanted to take my
wife’s mobile phone by force. A quarrel broke out between us. At this point, my
wife’s father and mother came out from the hospital and told them that my wife
was their daughter.”
Still unconvinced with Muhammad’s story, the
commission members called a security patrol team, and shortly afterward, the
field supervisor of the Haia arrived and apologized to Muhammad for what
happened. But he asked him to sign a paper that said he had insulted the Haia
members.
“I refused to sign because it is impossible to let
them falsely accuse my wife in public of not being married to me and then ask
me to sign a paper saying that it was me who had insulted them.”
When Muhammad refused to sign the piece of paper, he
was asked to go to a nearby police station. Once there, he was given a report
of the incident in which the commission members accused him of insulting them.
He was then told to go to the Bureau of Investigation
and Public Prosecution (BIP) where Muhammad claims he was asked to admit to his
wrongdoings or he would lose his wife and job.
“I denied all the allegations. I swore that I will not
relinquish my right and that of my wife. My father and father-in-law defended
me. They issued an order to imprison me for five days,” Muhammad said.
Al-Jazirah called the spokesman of the Haia in
Al-Qassim region, Abdullah Al-Mansour, who said Muhammad had been detained in
an isolated place and he did not heed Haia members’ request to identify
himself.
Furthermore, he drove off to a public place where the
woman he was with left the vehicle and ignored members’ calls to stop.
Al-Mansour said the suspect was then arrested and
referred to the investigation authorities.
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20130914180386
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Palestinian seeks husband’s body, held by Syrian
rebels
September 14,
2013
DAMASCUS — Arriving at the rubble of the Palestinian
Yarmuk refugee camp in Damascus, Hadia Al-Fut discovered that her husband had
been killed while fighting in the ranks of a pro-regime Palestinian group.
Worse still, she found there was little chance she
would be able to recover his remains because the rebels who killed him in an ambush
a day earlier were holding out for an exchange for bodies.
Hadia, a Palestinian, had fled Yarmuk because of
ongoing fighting there, but was back at the camp to meet her husband.
“We had an appointment because we had to register our
19-month-old son,” she said between sobs.
“When I arrived, I was told that he and his whole
group were killed in an ambush by Al-Nusra Front,” she added, referring to a
jihadist rebel group.
Her husband Mohamed had been fighting in the ranks of
the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, a pro-regime
Palestinian group led by Ahmed Jibril.
Just 27, he was a taxi driver before the war, and
decided to join the PFLP-GC a year ago despite being Syrian. “I want to see my
husband one last time. I want to know where he was buried,” Hadia said
tearfully.
But the possibility of retrieving his body seemed
slight because the rebels who killed him were holding out for an exchange for
bodies.
She discussed it with with a PFLP-GC leader, as the
sounds of battle — gun and automatic weapons fire — continued around them.
“I need to have him close to me, but there’s no hope,
because his friends don’t have a body to exchange for his,” she said, holding
the hands of her son and seven-year-old daughter Sira. In an apartment in part
of the camp controlled by the faction, the smell of death hovered over a body
wrapped in sheets.
The Palestinian pro-regime fighters said it was that
of a foreign rebel, but opposition forces refused to accept it in an exchange
because the corpse couldn’t be identified.
Yarmuk has been the scene of fierce clashes for months
between opposition fighters and forces loyal the regime of President Bashar
Al-Assad.
The area was established in 1957 as a camp for
Palestinian refugees, but has gradually become a district of the capital. It is
home to around 450,000 people, including 150,000 Syrians, and many mixed
marriages like that of Hadia and Mohamed.
The 500,000 Palestinians in Syria stayed largely
outside of the conflict between the opposition and regime for its first 18
months.
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20130914180337
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New breast cancer drug approved
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS
14 September 2013
Breast cancer is spreading three times faster in the
Kingdom than in other countries.
Issam Mirshe, chairman of the Saudi Oncology Society
and oncology and radiation therapy consultant, said that there were 11,862
female breast cancer patients in the Kingdom and only 125 male breast cancer
patients over a period of 16 years.
There was also a 65 percent recovery rate among those
diagnosed early and those who sought follow-up treatment.
Mirshe said the Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA)
allowed a new drug in the market that treats patients with advanced breast
cancer. The drug halts cancer cells from multiplying and is expected to treat
53 percent of cancer patients in the Kingdom.
Abdulaziz bin Ali Al-Turki, president of the Saudi
Oncology Society, said that statistics available with the National Oncology
Register revealed that breast cancer was the most common, accounting for 25.9
percent of all cancer cases, with the Eastern Province registering the highest
number of patients.
Abdulmuhsin Al-Milhim, director of Al-Ahsa Health
Affairs, said breast cancer patients in the Eastern Province constitute 22
percent of total cases registered in the Kingdom. Saudi Arabia accounts for one
percent of breast cancer cases worldwide.
“Breast cancer accounts for 25 percent of the total
number of female cancer patients who are registered with cancer treatment
centers in Riyadh and 35 percent in Jeddah, according to an annual report
published by the Ministry of Health in 2009,” said Dean of the College of
Medicine Walid Albuali.
Abdulrahim Qari, internal medicine, hematology and
oncology consultant in Jeddah, said chronic lymphocytic leukemia is one of the
most common forms of cancer.
http://www.arabnews.com/news/464557
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