{"id":6044,"date":"2019-05-16T18:59:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T18:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=247146"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:17:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:17:12","slug":"free-rides-to-screening-appointments-thanks-to-woman-who-lost-mother-to-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/free-rides-to-screening-appointments-thanks-to-woman-who-lost-mother-to-breast-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Rides to Screening Appointments Thanks to Woman Who Lost Mother to Breast Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The death of one woman is helping prevent the loss of so many more thanks to her daughter, who is working to provide free bus rides for women in need of mammograms who can\u2019t get to their appointments.<\/span>Brenda Nasr<\/a>, from Brombrough, England, has had several close family members diagnosed with breast cancer. One of those family members was her mother, Florence Cliffe, who succumbed to the disease in 2004, at the age of 77.<\/span>\u201cMy mum had a lump, it was removed. Having had her lump removed she then had to have her left breast removed. I remember being in the room when the doctor told my mum they did not get all the cancer out. I fainted, I hit the floor,\u201d says Brenda.<\/span>After her mother\u2019s death, Brenda made it her life\u2019s mission to make sure women in one of the most disadvantaged areas of Liverpool had access to breast cancer screening opportunities so that they\u2019d have a better chance of catching the cancer early and being able to survive it.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Adobe Stock\/Myroslava<\/a><\/span>\u201cI absolutely believe in breast screening,\u201d says Brenda, who has never had the disease but is a survivor of uterine cancer. \u201cIf there is a problem and you get screening, it can be sorted. If you want to see your children and your grandchildren grow up, you owe it to yourself to get it sorted because if you don\u2019t look after yourself, how can you look after your children?\u201d<\/span>Brenda started a campaign to raise awareness for breast cancer and get more women transportation to mammogram appointments<\/a>. She approached the postcode lottery, NHS England, and other organizations in an attempt to find a way to get free bus passes for these women, at first to no avail.<\/span>\u201cI was fed up going everywhere,\u201d she says. \u201cThey were probably hoping I would just give up, but that was not the case.\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Adobe Stock\/Monkey Business<\/a><\/span>But then\u2014a breakthrough. A local housing company volunteered to produce breast cancer screening pamphlets and provide 100 free bus passes<\/a> to each practice in the Picton area. Since then, things have only been getting better.<\/span>\u201cThese passes can help those who would otherwise be unable to afford it travel to their appointments and could see multiple benefits including cost savings for the NHS by decreasing missed appointments and helping to detect any issues as early as possible,\u201d says Steve Rotheram, Liverpool City Region Metro Mayor. \u201cIt may also build up people\u2019s confidence and encourage them to use the bus more often, which will bring long-term economic and environmental benefits to the city region.\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Adobe Stock\/pikselstock<\/a><\/span>Since the campaign started, Brenda has increased the number of women in her area going to screening regularly from 53 percent to 75 percent. She\u2019s also secured free bus rides for women in need and a translating service so she can send out letters in 10 different languages about the services available at Broadgreen Hospital.<\/span>\u201cBreast screening was really really low. I was looking at ways how this could be increased,\u201d says Brenda. \u201cWe have got to overcome language barriers, culture, and there\u2019s lots of poverty. If you have not got your own transport, it\u2019s not easy to get to Broadgreen Hospital for an appointment. It\u2019s two buses, costing about \u00a35, or it\u2019s about \u00a39 in a taxi from Picton.\u201d<\/span>Despite being 69 years old, Brenda doesn\u2019t plan to stop her efforts anytime soon and wants to focus on awareness for cervical cancer<\/a> next.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0Share on Facebook<\/a><\/span>
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The death of one woman is helping prevent the loss of so many more thanks to her daughter, who is working to provide free bus rides for women in need of mammograms who can\u2019t get to their appointments.Brenda Nasr, from Brombrough, England, has had several close family members diagnosed with breast cancer. One of those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44509,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions\/44509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}