Women’s Health Initiative Cut Breast Cancer Deaths by 15%, Radiology Professor Says

Egypt’s presidential initiative for women’s health has reduced breast cancer deaths by 15%, according to Dr. Ashraf Selim, a professor of radiology and interventional radiology at Qasr Al-Aini Faculty of Medicine.

Selim heads the initiative’s diagnostic radiology division, placing his remarks within the programme’s work on women’s health.

The figure refers to a reduction in deaths from breast cancer, rather than a decline in the number of women diagnosed with the disease.

The brief account of his remarks did not specify the period covered by the reduction, the baseline used for comparison or the data behind the estimate.