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  • Women's reproductive life stages
  • Painful periods and heavy menstrual bleeding
  • Preventing cervical cancer
  • Understanding breast cancer
  • Respectful healthcare for women
  • Female genital mutilation
  • Preparing for pregnancy
  • Pain and bleeding in early pregnancy
  • Infertility – difficulty in getting pregnant
  • Antenatal care for healthy pregnancy
  • Diet and nutrition in pregnancy
  • Common problems in pregnancy
  • Danger signs in pregnancy
  • Pre-eclampsia
  • Maternal sepsis
  • Premature birth
  • Labor and birth
  • Cesarean section
  • Obstetric fistula
  • Breastfeeding
  • Danger signs in newborn babies
  • Postnatal care
  • Jaundice in the newborn
  • Postnatal family planning (contraception)
  • Menopause
  • Postmenopausal bleeding
  • Bladder and pelvic floor problems
  • Women's health in later years
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Enhancing the Welfare of Women

Expert Health Information for Women

Kuelewa Saratani ya Matiti
na kwa nini unapaswa kuangalia matiti yako mara kwa mara
Saratani ya matiti ni ugonjwa wa kawaida kwa wanawake. Mtu yeyote anaweza kupata saratani ya matiti, katika umri wowote.
Ni hali ambayo seli za matiti hukua bila kudhibitiwa. Wanawake wengi hawajui kuwa wana saratani hadi wamechelewa. Lakini ikiwa saratani itapatikana mapema, inaweza kutibiwa.
Dalili za saratani ya matiti ambazo unapaswa kutafuta ni uvimbe kwenye titi, maumivu ya matiti yasiyo ya kawaida, mabadiliko ya jinsi matiti yanavyoonekana na kitu kinachotoka kwenye chuchu.
Ikiwa una dalili zozote au una wasiwasi kuhusu matiti yako, unapaswa kuonana na mfanyakazi wa afya.
Kuwa na dalili zozote haimaanishi kuwa una saratani ya matiti - uvimbe kwenye matiti inaweza isiwe na madhara.
Hata hivyo, mhudumu wa afya ataangalia matiti yako na kukushauri ikiwa hatua zaidi zinahitajika.
Tafadhali kumbuka kuwa unaweza kuomba uchunguzi wa matiti hata kama huna dalili zozote.
Ni muhimu kukagua matiti yako mara kwa mara, haswa unapokuwa na umri wa zaidi ya miaka 40.
Mhudumu wa afya anaweza kuchunguza matiti yako na anaweza kufanya baadhi ya vipimo vya kuchunguza saratani ya matiti.
Unapaswa kukumbuka kila wakati kuwa ni rahisi kuponya saratani ya matiti ikiwa itagunduliwa mapema.
Unaweza kupunguza hatari ya kupata saratani ya matiti kwa:
Kufanya mazoezi mara 3-4 kwa wiki; Kudhibiti uzito wako;
Kunyonyesha;
Kutokunywa pombe kupita kiasi;
Kutovuta sigara.
Kwa hivyo unapaswa kukumbuka daima - kuishi maisha yenye afya - kufuatilia mabadiliko yoyote katika matiti yako - na kutafuta matibabu mapema.

Waandishi wa mpango huu wa KUELEWA SARATANI YA MATITI ni:

  • Dk Siti Nurkamilla Ramdzan
    Idara ya Tiba ya Huduma ya Msingi, Kitivo cha Tiba, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
  • Dr Ilham Ameera Ismail
    Kitivo cha Tiba, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
  • Dk Julia Suhaimi
    Kitivo cha Tiba, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
  • Dk Khasnur Abd Malek
    Kitivo cha Tiba, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
  • Dk Nurainul Hana Shamsuddin
    Kitivo cha Sayansi ya Tiba na Afya, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

Mpango wa Ustawi wa Wanawake umeundwa chini ya Uhariri Mkuu wa Dk Kate Lightly, Chuo Kikuu cha Liverpool, Uingereza na unasimamiwa na Bodi ya Wahariri ya Kimataifa.

Gharama ya kuzalisha nyenzo hii imefadhiliwa kwa sehemu na ruzuku ya elimu kutoka GSK

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