UP Health Department has launched a 12-day training program for nurses on detecting cervical and breast cancer in women. For this, newly appointed nurses are being given special training and deployed in women's hospitals.

More than 200 nurses have been trained under this programme at the State Health Institute, Lucknow; the Regional Health Training Institutes in Jhansi and Varanasi; and the District Joint Hospital, Noida.

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Cervical and breast cancer are the most common cancers among women. Special efforts are being made to train nurses, in addition to doctors, to ensure these cancers can be identified in their early stages.

In the 12-day special training, contractual and regular nurses are being taught about the detection of cervical and breast cancer, alongside patient care. In addition, newly appointed ANMs are also being given a 12-day special training so that they can also raise awareness among women about methods for early-stage cancer detection.

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According to experts, more than 90,000 deaths from breast cancer occur in India every year. Breast cancer accounts for 28.2 per cent of cancers in women. Meanwhile, 1,27,000 new cases of cervical cancer are reported each year, and 80,000 women die annually from this cancer.