Keeping You Abreast: Breast Cancer Awareness For WwDs

Abha Khetarpal

Nov 2013 · Cross the Hurdles

About this ebook

This Handbook is meant to help females with disabilities and their care givers for making them aware of the risk factors of breast cancer and how they can examine themselves. There is an equal risk of breast cancer for women with disabilities as it is for non-disabled women. But the challenges we face for detecting, controlling, and treating it are often greater than those of non-disabled women.

About the author

Abha Khetarpal is the President of Cross the Hurdles, a registered society which is dedicated to work for people with disabilities. This society helps empower individuals with disabilities in areas such as their educational concerns, vocational decision making, developing their entrepreneurial abilities, creating awareness on their rights and counseling, to name a few. She completed her graduation from Delhi University and has perused her Masters’ Degree in three Subjects – M.A. Economics, M.A. English and M.Sc. Psychotherapy. She is a counselor for students with disabilities at University College of Medical Sciences and Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital. Ms.Khetarpal has presented and published numerous papers on the diverse issues of disability in prestigious journals such as the International Journal of User Driven Medicine, Medic of Italy, Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine and Study on Employing Persons with Disabilities by the PHD Chambers of Commerce and Industry; presented papers at the Indian Spinal Injuries Centre, New Delhi, JNU, National Symposium on Disability Management in Agriculture and Farming, among many others. She has also authored two handbooks, namely ‘Tax Concessions and Exemptions for the People with Disabilities in India’ and ‘Keeping You Abreast’ for females with disabilities for their breast cancer self examination and awareness. Ms.Khetarpal also free-lances as a career counselor to people with special needs and has recently launched a first ever mobile application for the people with disability in India by the name of Cross the Hurdles.