Dr. Weldon Liu promotes breast screening on TV, radio and YouTube in Cantonese
Last October, Ontario’s Minister of Health (MOH), along with MI Breast Division Lead, Dr. Supriya Kulkarni, announced that they were lowering the minimum age for average-risk breast cancer screening from 50 to 40, an important step in making healthcare more accessible to more people.
Since then, MI Adjunct Lecturer Dr. Weldon Liu has been working to communicate the announcement to the Cantonese-speaking Chinese community.
“As the peak age at diagnosis of breast cancer is lower for Asian Canadians, I feel obliged to raise awareness of our Ontario Breast Screening Program (OBSP) and to highlight the importance of earlier cancer detection, using my mother tongue of Cantonese,” Dr. Liu explains. “I would invite everyone to refer their Cantonese-speaking patients to my YouTube channel.”
Dr. Liu received his Doctor of Medicine (MD) at the University of Toronto (U of T) before completing his radiology residency at McMaster University. After a fellowship in cross-sectional imaging at U of T’s St. Michael’s Hospital, he began working at Etobicoke General Hospital (EGH), William Osler Health System in 2001 and was the Breast Lead when EGH ranked first among 215 OBSP sites in 2016-2017.
Through his outreach to the Cantonese-speaking community, Dr. Liu hopes to inspire other radiologists to create similar educational materials in other languages to foster outreach and accessibility in more communities and on more topics.
See some of Dr. Liu’s advocacy work here:
- On Omni TV — Focus Cantonese 都市聚焦
https://youtu.be/XTnMHlOjrkE - On A1 Chinese Radio — A1早晨
https://youtu.be/mHrkP-wij68 - On YouTube
https://youtu.be/12HhPxM3b3o
Find other informational videos in Cantonese on Dr. Weldon Liu’s YouTube channel here, including another video on Breast Cancer Screening.