October is breast cancer awareness month and a donation of $1,000 from MBF Bank will go towards funding an awareness campaign that will be launched in Nuku’alofa, October 1.
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Results for Tonga Breast Cancer Society
Friday 28 September 2018
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
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Tuesday 3 October 2017
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Breast cancer remains the number one cancer affecting women in Tonga with 12 cases so far from January-July this year, said Dr ‘Ana ‘Akau’ola today at the launch of the Pink October breast cancer awareness campaign. Only two of those cases were detected early through mammogram. "It's only when your cancer is detected early, that we can help you beat this killer disease”
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Thursday 9 February 2017
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Tonga Breast Cancer Society received a donation of USD$600 from India's High Commissioner to Tonga HE Mr Vishvas Vidu Sapkal on Wednesday, February 8 in Nuku'alofa.
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Friday 28 October 2016
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer in Tonga "no doubt about it", said Dr ‘Ana ‘Akau’ola today at a breast cancer awareness Pink October morning tea event hosted by Tonga Communications Corporation at Fasi.
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Monday 24 October 2016
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Anne Thorp, ambassador for the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation said 3,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year in New Zealand. She told a “Pink in Paris” fundraising luncheon, organized by the Tonga Breast Cancer Society on 22 October, that Maori and Pacific Islands women often don't present themselves early enough for treatment.
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Saturday 24 October 2015
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Celebrating Pink October, the Tonga Breast Cancer Society hosted a fundraising luncheon at the Vakaloa Resort, Kanokupolu today joined by the society Patron Princess Pilolevu, her daughters Hon Frederica Filipe and Hon. Fanetupouvava'u Tu'ivakano and their children.
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Wednesday 25 July 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Tonga Nurses Associations of New Zealand and Australia, in support of a breast cancer awareness campaign in Tonga, made a donation of pink pins and ribbons to the President of the Tonga Breast Cancer Society, Hon. Frederica Tuita today.
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Monday 3 October 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tongan women who are discovered to have advanced breast tumours are being asked why they have not come forward for medical examination earlier.
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Friday 30 September 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Recognising the importance of early detection of breast cancer in order to save lives is the aim of the Pink October Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which starts on October 1, with a Pink Bicycle Bike Ride in Nuku'alofa.
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Friday 22 October 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Recognising the importance of breast cancer awareness in Tonga, women at a Pink Fundraising Lunch on October 14 raised $6,000 pa'anga for the Tonga Breast Cancer Society.
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Thursday 13 May 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Polynesian countries collectively have a high death rate from breast cancer because of late detection of the disease, Mr Paul Kitchen MA MB BS FRACS, a breast cancer surgeon from Australia said in Nuku'alofa this week.
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Tuesday 29 January 2008
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Can I humbly express my heartfelt gratitude and thanks to the Minister of Health and his surgical staff for their confidence, encouragement, kindness and care during my mother's mastectomy operation last Thursday. - Anthony Tu‘ipeatau
