The weekly market Cotillas Towers tomorrow will be filled in October-to-17 pink ribbons to mark the International Day Against Breast Cancer to be held next Sunday in the world.
Thus, the municipality Torreño is ahead 48 hours to rest in a new effort by the Department of Public Health to raise awareness to all local women about the importance of breast self-examination.
This information day for the prevention of breast cancer, which runs from clothing and food stalls will be held from 10 to 12 hours when about two dozen volunteers from the local board of the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC) starting around the market to provide information to consumers about the importance of carrying out such checks that regularly contribute time to tackle this disease.
In addition, the local Public Health Department will install, in the same market, a table to inform Torrena who wish above all that they want to know regarding the disease.
Fashion cancer
Also, on Sunday 19 (20 hours) and to mark the International Day Against Breast Cancer, the scene of the Casa de la Cultura "Pedro Serna" will become a fashion during the course of a friendly parade organized by the Women's Association Cotillas Towers to benefit the AECC.
In the evening the volunteers of the local board of the AECC Torrena again to make his reporting and impose pink commemorative ties to attendees.
"It seems a striking and original idea, very appropriate to call attention to the need to combat by all means possible against this disease," said Councilman Health, Alfonso Sandoval, on this initiative.
It should be noted that breast cancer is an abnormal growth and disorderly cells from this tissue.
This type of cancer is one of the leading causes of death in women over 40 years (although it has been reported in individuals much younger).
According to the statistics of deaths from breast cancer decreased by 1.4% every year but do not forget that diagnosed cases of this disease every 35 minutes and every half hour a woman dies due to this evil.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Las Torres de Cotillas