More than 1,100 women fall ill with breast cancer in Moldova in 2018

Chisinau, 1 October /MOLDPRES/ - A number of 1,125 women patients sick with breast cancer were registered in Moldova in 2018 and as many as 9,700 women are in the records of the Oncological Institute in all. The Health, Labour and Social Protection Ministry made public this data, in the context of marking the monthly  breast cancer awareness event.       

According to the ministry, the situation in terms of discovery of the breast cancer remains worrying for this year too; the ratio between the early phases (I+II) is of 62.6 per cent and each third woman was discovered in the phases III and IV. The specific treatment is short and the radical one is practically minimized in the early phases; thus, the results of the treatment often have a cautious forecast.    

Data by the World Health Organization shows that, in the world, one woman is diagnosed with breast cancer each three minutes and one woman dies of this disease each 14 minutes. The breast cancer causes about 77,000 deaths annually, being the most often form of cancer recorded in women.    

To enhance the degree of awareness among women, the authorities ruled to organize the Rose Month Campaign. During this October, a green phone line 022852137 will work at the Oncological Institute, where a breast physician will answer questions put by people calling.