Moldovan women MPs join information campaign on breast cancer

Chisinau, 5 October /MOLDPRES/ - The Moldovan women lawmakers have joined an awareness and information campaign on breast cancer. They fastened  symbolical rose bands at their chests, as a token of solidarity, the parliament’s communication and public relations department has reported.  

In the beginning of a today’s plenary meeting, the deputy head of the commission for social protection, health and family, Valentina Stratan, said that, at an urge by the World health Organization, the October month is dedicated to information campaigns on the prophylaxis and treatment of breast cancer.    

“Annually, about 1,000 women are diagnosed in Moldova. Fifty percent of them go to doctor in advanced stages of the disease. Only four out of ten women survive more than five years,” Stratan noted. In the context, the MP made an appeal to women to periodically control the health condition, including to get familiarized and consult the physicians mammologists.      

Breast cancer is the most frequent type of cancer among women in the world, according to the World Health Organization. Each year, over 1.6 million new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed worldwide and more than 520,000 women die because of this disease. This means that one woman dies of breast cancer somewhere in the world every minute.