#Impact365: Exquisite Magazine holds SMEARathon screening exercise for cervical cancer (PHOTOS)

The Exquisite Magazine Against Cancer (EMAC) Walk held on Saturday, 16 September at the Muri Okunola Park, Victoria Island, Lagos.

The EMAC Walk which has held quarterly since 2006 aims to “increase the awareness for cervical, breast and prostate cancer and in the process promoting its partners and sponsors.”

Attendees participated in a fitness training which was led by Maje Ayide, a brief run in the park, lectures on cervical cancer and the SMEARathon screening exercise with provisions made for 500 women.

In her interview with YNaija’s Impact365 months ago, founder of EMAC who also doubles as the Editor-in-Chief of Exquisite Magazine, Tewa Onasanya said cervical cancer “is one of the few cancers that presents a pre- cancer stage which makes it treatable before it becomes cancer. Another research shows 64% of Nigerian women diagnosed with cervical cancer die annually.”

According to her, EMAC was set to “screen at least 1000 ladies or more for cervical and Breast Cancer and encourage parents to vaccinate their children against HPV (human papilloma virus) which causes cervical cancer” among others.

See all the photos from Saturday’s event:

 

 

Photos: Hycinth Iyereosa

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