The campaign "We defeat breast cancer together" is launched
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On the occasion of the beginning of the pink month for breast cancer awareness, the Ministry of Health has launched the awareness campaign with the motto "We beat breast cancer together".
As part of this campaign, a call was made to women to do check-ups and mammograms in order to detect the disease as early as possible.
The Minister of Health, Arben Vitia, said that this campaign has become annual and that, according to him, it is achieving results because now the number of women who are notified of the first and second stage of breast cancer has increased.
He said that during this month there will be awareness campaigns every day with all other institutions, including various organizations.
"Today the campaign against breast cancer officially started, a campaign that has now become annual with various organizations from the Ministry of Health, but not only. There will be a reorganization by President Osmani with the usual walk in the square for this issue And there will be awareness campaigns every day with all other institutions, including various organizations, because as we pointed out, it is extremely important that in the last two years, more than 52 percent of the cases are detected in the first stage. and second breast cancer, which shows that awareness has already worked, because self-checks and mammography examinations are already becoming a common part of what women are doing," said Vitia.
The director of the Oncology Clinic at the University Clinical Center of Kosovo, Ilir Kurtishi, emphasized that in the last two years, over 50 percent of cases are diagnosed in the first and second stages of the disease. He added that years ago, about 70 percent of women were notified in the advanced stage of the disease.
The director of the Plastic Surgery Clinic at KKUK, Violeta Zatriqi, called on all women who have undergone breast amputation due to cancer to go for a consultation at this clinic to undergo free breast reconstruction surgery.
Meanwhile, the message of one of the breast cancer survivors, Arnisa Osmani, is for women to do check-ups and melography.
Osmani, who is also the director of the Non-Governmental Organization "Have Hope", said that early detection of the disease saves lives.
A few days ago, in an interview for KosovaPress, the director of Oncology, Ilir Kurtishi, stated that women over 50 years of age are the most affected by breast cancer, while he showed that until the month of September, over 300 new cases of breast cancer were registered. women with this disease for the first time.