there are more than 50,000 new breast cancer cases in the uk every year but research shows that women from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to attend screening. after nagina kaleem was diagnosed, she said some people in the south asian community blamed her for getting the disease. sophia seth went to meet her. i was feeling like i m untouchable person, and very worthless. nagina kaleem started getting breast cancer symptoms in 2013. this very discomfort in this arm, and a lot of pain and myjoint. the pain worsened. unable to move her arm, she visited the gp, and a lump in her armpit was found. big shock. i don t have any cancer history in my family. nagina struggled to come to terms with her diagnosis, but what made it worse was that some people from parts of south asian communities blamed her for getting breast cancer. they don t take it as a disease. they think that this is the result of that person s sins, or that this is punishment from god.
she said some people in the south asian community blamed her for getting the disease. sophia seth has been to meet her. i was feeling like i m untouchable person, and very worthless. nagina kaleem started getting breast cancer symptoms in 2013. this very discomfort in this arm, and a lot of pain and myjoint. the pain worsened. unable to move her arm, she visited the gp, and a lump in her armpit was found. big shock. i don t have any cancer history in my family. nagina struggled to come to terms with her diagnosis, but what made it worse was that some people from parts of south asian communities blamed her for getting breast cancer. they don t take it as a disease. they think that this is the result of that person s sins, or that this is punishment from god.
nagina kaleem started getting breast cancer symptoms in 2013. this very discomfort in this arm, and a lot of pain in myjoint. the pain worsened. unable to move her arm, she visited the gp, and a lump in her armpit was found. big shock. i don t have any cancer history in my family. nagina struggled to come to terms with her diagnosis, but what made it worse was that some people from parts of south asian communities blamed her for getting breast cancer. they don t take it as a disease. they think that this is the result of that person s sins, or that this is punishment from god. 0r sometimes they think that this person is cursed. some friends just said that, you should go and repent. one of my friends, she just stopped talking with me, and for eight years she couldn t
breast cancer symptoms in 2013. this very discomfort in this arm, and a lot of pain in myjoint. the pain worsened. unable to move her arm, she visited the gp, and a lump in her armpit was found. big shock. i don t have any cancer history in my family. nagina struggled to come to terms with her diagnosis, but what made it worse was that some people from parts of south asian communities blamed her for getting breast cancer. they don t take it as a disease. they think that this is the result of that person s sins, or that this is punishment from god. 0r sometimes they think that this person is cursed. some friends just said that, you should go and repent. one of my friends, she just stopped talking with me, and for eight years she couldn t