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Migrant-worker rights advocate Toots Ople battling Stage 2 breast cancer
Migrant-worker rights advocate Toots Ople battling Stage 2 breast cancer
ABS-CBN News
Published Oct 29, 2020 01:36 AM PHT
OFW Representative Susan Toots Ople shows her certificate of candidacy at the Commission on Election on October 15, 2015. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
MANILA — Susan Ople on Wednesday said she has been battling Stage 2 breast cancer.
In an interview with TeleRadyo, Ople, a migrant-worker rights advocate and a former Labor undersecretary, made the revelation when asked if she intended to run for public office.
"Right now I'm battling Stage 2 breast cancer... I'm still very much focused sa advocacy ko sa OFWs and nadagdagan pa ng cancer advocacy. Sa lahat ng nakikinig magpa-mammogram po kayo. Month of breast cancer awareness ngayon," she said.
Ople first revealed her initial diagnosis in a Business Mirror column in February.
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Ople heads the Blas F. Ople Policy Center and Training Institute, a non-profit organization that deals with labor and migration issues.
She was also recently appointed to the board of trustees of the United Nations Trust Fund for Victims of Human Trafficking.
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