Future healthcare professionals champion breast cancer awareness
AWARENESS: The event helped to raise awareness about breast cancer.
Thursday, 23 October 2025
The Faculty of Health and Wellness Sciences recently hosted a creative, hands-on Breast Cancer event for students – showing them how to do self-checks and why early detection matters.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and the event’s main message was early detection saves lives.
Dr Lizel Hudson, Work-Integrated Learning and Language Coordinator in the Faculty, said the initiative was driven by students for students, with Nursing Science and Medical Imaging and Therapeutic Sciences students taking the lead.
“The amazing team from Nursing Science said they wanted to do something for the students — to create not only awareness about breast cancer, but also to teach them how to do a breast self-examination. It’s a powerful tool that is often neglected. We wanted to show them what to look out for and why it’s important,” she explained.
At the HIV/AIDS Unit, students could participate in demonstrations to learn the correct technique for performing a breast self-examination and conduct their own examinations.
One of the highlights of the event was the creative use of sweets with different textures to help explain the differences between normal and abnormal breast tissue.
“Tumours come in all shapes and sizes, but this gave students something tangible and sensory to remember: if it feels like the hard sweet, get it checked.”
Hudson thanked the Faculty leadership, CANSA, the Nursing Science Department, and the students for their support.
Written by Ilse Fredericks
Email: Frederickskennediji@cput.ac.za
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