Volume - 13 | Issue-1
Volume - 13 | Issue-1
Volume - 13 | Issue-1
Volume - 13 | Issue-1
Volume - 13 | Issue-1
Over the last two decades, cancer statistics showed that the most common cancer type among Jordanaian women is breast cancer, which affecting annually more than one thousand women as new cases. Breast cancer remains the third leading cause of cancer type’s death among women worldwide, where breast cancer detection among cases occurs at advanced stages. Some of the issues that may contribute to delayed detection are feeling of embarrassment of undergoing mammography and fear of the mammogram radiation effect. Cancer antigen 15-3 and Carcinoembryonic Antigen are considered to be minimally invasive screening tests for breast cancer which are safer. There is no policy that supports mandatory CA 15-3 and CEA tests among Jordanian women as screening tests. Action must be taken to legislate mandatory CA 15-3 tests among Jordanian women. This policy brief is directed to the Medical Jordanian Constitution to promote the importance of mandating a policy about the CA 15-3 and CEA tests; it would help in detecting breast cancer in its early stages and in turn lower the mortality rate