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Mariola Guevara, Councillor for Education and Health, along with Charo de la Vega, President of the AECC of Alhama and Pedro Dominguez Romero, Coordinator Health Center Alhama, presented this afternoon to coincide with World Cancer Day, the Prevention program Breast Cancer, the Directorate General of Public Health and Addiction of the Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the AECC, the City of Alhama and Health Center have been developing since 1996.

The program will be held from the 10th to February 29th and March 1st, from Monday from 8.30 to 16.55 h., From Tuesday to Thursday from 8:30 to 14:45.

and Fridays from 8.30 to 13.30.

The program is aimed at women aged 50 to 69, for a total of 1535 women who will be cited by letter for attending the program.

To perform mammograms, a mobile unit with health center of the town the days referred to be located.

Mariola has suggested that any woman who has not received the appointment letter before February 9, you can go to the health center and ask for an appointment.

Finally, the mayor has invited all the neighbors to get tested, and that the best prevention of breast cancer is early diagnosis.

For his part, Pedro Dominguez Coordinator Health Center Alhama, recalled that breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women, and with a relatively simple and affordable test, mammography, is making a diagnosis early valuable.

Charo de la Vega, president of the AECC in Murcia, said that "it is in these programs, which takes shape and becomes clear, the work to inform and raise awareness about prevention and early diagnosis, since the association carried out. "

Charo also noted that women who are between 45 and 50 years, and which are outside the program, please contact the association or your doctor and taking advantage of that is here the mobile unit of the association, the mammogram.

Finally, he has invited women to not let you have this test because of its great importance.

And he recalled that throughout the year, if any woman, regardless of age or programs is any abnormality in the breast, you can go to the association, the same way as your doctor, and there he made the appropriate tests.

Source: villadealhama.es