This is the tenth year since US-based Guyanese Judith Richmond was diagnosed with breast cancer and she has had time to reflect on health and wellness and now urges people to be proactive in living healthy lifestyles and to take heed of public health awareness programmes.
“I feel so fortunate and blessed to be here. I encourage people to listen to their bodies and visit the doctor. I was not proactive enough. I didn’t have a mammogram until I was 55, and that was after I felt the lump in my breast, even though a family member was diagnosed with breast cancer a year and a half before,” Richmond of Kitty, Georgetown and Atlanta, Georgia told Stabroek Weekend in a recent interview.
“I urge anyone with cancer to undergo treatment. Each day of extended life offers a new opportunity for a cure, a treatment and with artificial intelligence there may be much quicker medical breakthroughs. To those without cancer, eat a healthy diet, maintain a lean weight, exercise, and remain stress free, live, laugh, love.”