Breast cancer in government agendas

• April 26, 2024

The international organization against breast cancer "Susan G. Komen for the Cure", presented simultaneously, in Mexico and Brazil a proposal to ask the countries of the Group of 8 (Germany, Canada, United States, France, Italy, Japan , United Kingdom and Russia), that prioritize the issue in their agendas.

The proposal presented to civil society organizations and officials of the Initiative's organizing committee Global Komen for Breast Cancer Awareness , proposes to achieve greater resources for the prevention, treatment, diagnosis and various educational programs of the cancers that afflict the female population.
 

Joanne Manrique, executive director of the Komen Global Alliance for Health, explained in videoconference that they will call on international leaders at the next G8 meeting to obtain more resources to prevent more deaths from cancer.
 

The Global Initiative seeks to bring together decision makers, survivors and anti-cancer activists. This initiative takes two years in Mexico, where a breast cancer mortality rate in 2008 was recorded of 16.84 per 100 thousand women aged 25 and over, according to figures from the Ministry of Health.
 

The Komen Global Initiative in Mexico, also promoted by the International Institute of Education (IIE), offers training and support to projects in 10 states of the country: Coahuila, Federal District, State of Mexico, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, Nuevo León, Oaxaca and Querétaro.
 

Premature deaths

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 14 million people in low and middle-income countries die prematurely from chronic diseases every year. Deaths from breast cancer alone could reach more than 11 million over the next 25 years.
 

That is why Nancy Brinker, Cancer ambassador to the UN and founder of the Komen organization, underlines the call to world leaders to prevent the "tsunami of cancer" that is looming.
 

The opportunity follows the resolution taken at the UN General Assembly to call a summit that includes heads of state to address the threat of chronic diseases - diabetes, cardiovascular, respiratory and cancer in low and medium-developed countries. The summit will take place in September 2011.
 

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