Having read the article about breast cancer deaths in Malta, it struck me that although the government and NGOs were mentioned as campaigners for regular testing, the Church was not mentioned as taking any active part.
The target age group of 50-65 are often women who attend church regularly and may believe that they are in God’s hands and cannot or should not intervene in the course of their lives, medically speaking.
This is fully understandable, but I’m sure that if theChurch took a pro-active attitude to cancer screening and encouraged women (and men) totake advantage of medical advances, more would attend screenings and death rates could therefore be reduced.