Diseases:

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Breast Cancer:
Early lump detection is imperative. That is why women should have regular mammograms, and should perform breast self-examinations once every month. Women over the age of 40 should schedule regular mammograms too, at least one every year.

Examination: place the arm of the breast that you are examining behind your head. Using your fingertips, press gently on your breast working your way from the outside in towards your nipple.

Tuberculosis:
TB is a disease that affects any part of the body, but mainly the lungs.

Symptoms: chest pain, weight loss, coughing for more than 3 weeks and a loss of appetite.

Treatment, which is started after diagnosis and is allocated according to case definitions. Usually treatment lasts for three months on average. There was however, a recent outbreak of multi-drug resistant TB which requires treatment for longer.