Do you Detect - Breast cancer!
Tomorrow, Tuesday October 7 2008, which will be inaugurated at the European Parliament the exhibition “Breast cancer, do you detect” in the presence of European women exceptional. This exhibition presents key information and key figures linked to breast cancer screening in the European Union and an overview of various systems in place in several European countries (UK, Italy, Finland, Estonia )
This exhibition is organized within the framework of operation “in October rose” with the new campaign focuses this year on the importance of early detection, screening, which increases the chances of defeating the disease. Its slogan “screening is not a taboo, it is a chance, enter here!
The objective of the National Cancer Institute and Department of Health and medical insurance is to encourage women aged 50 to 74 years to participate in organized screening because it allows women concerned to benefit both years of screening quality, supported 100%. Mammograms are normal systematically reread (double play) by a second radiologist .. The slogan is clear “organized screening for breast cancer: from 50 years, every two years.”
As you may know, October is now several years already the appointment of a broad mobilization campaign for the fight against breast cancer called “pink October. One of the highlights of this campaign is the illumination pink of a monument or a public building, a sign of breast cancer awareness in the fight against breast cancer.
This is an opportunity to remind the importance of early detection, screening, which increases the chances of defeating the disease “screening is not a taboo, it is a chance, enter here! “This is the new campaign of the Ministry of Health, which began in early October.
