Abstract
Cancer is one of the top 10 deadliest diseases in the world. Initial shock from being diagnosed with cancer gives way to a realization of the tremendous physical, emotional, and spiritual challenges that lie ahead. Beyond the emotional turmoil that accompanies a cancer diagnosis, patients face a practical necessity to develop a plan to live with and fight cancer. According to Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr. Dzulkefly Ahmad, cancer has emerged as the second highest cause of death among Malaysians in 2018. This study is scrutinizing level of awareness and readiness among the Malaysia Citizens in Kuala Terengganu in dealing with cancer. Education, access to healthcare facilities and socio-cultural factors still influenced the likelihood of the people to go for cancer screening and get cancer treatment. Consequently, health information, communication, and cancer screening awareness campaign should be intensified to reach the public especially to the rural population. These efforts and initiatives can increase public access to information about cancer, and cancer screening and treatment facilities among the rural population, and especially those belonging to high-risk groups. Fear of the increasing number of cancer patients, this study perhaps will help the government and policymakers to look at the factors and reasons in order to educate people about cancer and increase their level of awareness. Finally, this study will help to improve the wellbeing of the people and align to the social re-engineering dimension was highlighted in the 12th Malaysia’s Plan.
Highlights
In Malaysia, the number of individual that has been diagnosed by cancer is increasing every year
The research questions for this study are as follows: This study aims to evaluate whether the respondents aware about early detection cancer program, about the self-examination (SE), aware about the knowledge related to early detection cancer program and awareness related to the screening related to types of cancer
A total of 119 respondents involved in this study were access through online and physical questionnaire distributed to people of Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu Malaysia
Summary
In Malaysia, the number of individual that has been diagnosed by cancer is increasing every year. Cancer has huge impact on individual, family, and society in Malaysia and all over the world. World Health Organization (WHO) statistics show that about 70 percent of the population of low- and middle-income countries are at risk of cancer with a 60 percent increase over a 20-year period. It is very important that all individuals should be sensitive to any changes or symptoms in their body, as the current scientific evidence show that every individual have a risk to diagnose with cancer. Even an early screening or screening test is important because it can detect cancer at an early stage and this will increase the chances of combating the disease and healing
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