From 4 to 29 February takes place the campaign against breast cancer.
Ana Fernandez, Councillor for Health, with Charo de la Rosa, president of the local AECC and Fran Ruiz LaVela, doctor who coordinates the Health Center Alhama, realized the details of the campaign.
The mayor of Health announced that the revisions are intended for women between 50 and 69 years who has sent them a letter citing them for mammography.
To do this, a mobile unit will be installed next to the health center is open on Mondays from 8:30 to 17:00 pm and from Tuesday to Thursday from 8.30 to 14.45 hours.
Will be installed on Fridays from 8.30 to 13.30.
Women of this age, who have not received summons, must apply in the health center itself.
Charo de la Rosa also noted that women over 45 who have a family history of breast cancer can also ask your mammogram.
Moreover, the representative of the local AECC highlighted the importance of these reviews and gave the example of four women who have come after notice and breast lumps that were not made revisions as is required.
De la Rosa clarified that if the had, possibly have managed to avoid confronting situations now larger.
In these terms the doctor, Fran Ruiz, who claimed that the most important is to have a medical prognosis that manages to not only prevent but achieve important quality of life before any treatment, and that this important disease manifested today can be halted in most cases that take a long time.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alhama de Murcia