FARVAH
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“Before I get a chance to pack up thirty years of experience on my shoulder and dive into a new decade in the summer, I was struggling with an illness, whose monstrous name and ghastly treatment was destroying me. I celebrated my thirtieth in clinics and with doctors. I was overwhelmed by chemotherapy and constant nausea and away from a cake, candles and wishful thinking. I entered the decade that was supposed to be the best time of my life, but in the jaws of cancer.” Farvah an Iranian breast cancer patient wrote on her facebook wall in September 2013.
Farvah, a 30-years-old copywriter and editor from Tehran fought her breast cancer since she acknowledged the disease in July 2013 and went through cancer treatments of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and a lumpectomy operation to overcome the cancer in December.
She is an independent woman living with her supportive fiance, Saleh, in Tehran. She was supposed to go through her mastectomy operation for removal of her right breast after the chemotherapy sessions but it turned to a lumpectomy during the surgery procedure as the pathology results were good meaning she could keep her breast.
According to Iranian cancer research, breast cancer is the most common form of the illness suffered by Iranian women which is affecting them at least one decade younger than their counterparts in developed countries with roughly more than 7000 new cases per year. Widespread pollution combined with the psychological pressures of life in the country have been both blamed for the soaring cancer statistics, while import of medicine is still difficult as Iran is affected by Western economic sanctions due to the country's controversial nuclear program.
Farvah, a 30-years-old copywriter and editor from Tehran fought her breast cancer since she acknowledged the disease in July 2013 and went through cancer treatments of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and a lumpectomy operation to overcome the cancer in December.
She is an independent woman living with her supportive fiance, Saleh, in Tehran. She was supposed to go through her mastectomy operation for removal of her right breast after the chemotherapy sessions but it turned to a lumpectomy during the surgery procedure as the pathology results were good meaning she could keep her breast.
According to Iranian cancer research, breast cancer is the most common form of the illness suffered by Iranian women which is affecting them at least one decade younger than their counterparts in developed countries with roughly more than 7000 new cases per year. Widespread pollution combined with the psychological pressures of life in the country have been both blamed for the soaring cancer statistics, while import of medicine is still difficult as Iran is affected by Western economic sanctions due to the country's controversial nuclear program.