Tumor prevention, Race for the cure village in Naples
Stand and camper for medical examinations and a volleyball court in Piazza del Plebiscito on the occasion of the two days of the Health Village set up by Corsa per la cura. Many Neapolitans lined up this morning to access the stands and carry out medical checks. “This event – said the president of Komen Italia, Riccardo Masetti – has helped to change the way in which women can live the difficult experience of breast cancer by breaking silence and fear and teaching them to share the difficulties they can also live an opportunity for them to restart their own lives “.
According to the numbers provided, every year in Italy 55 thousand women fall ill with breast cancer, a disease that once in 100 also affects men. And in the fight against cancer, prevention plays the lion’s share: if the diagnosis is early, the chances of recovery are equal to 90 percent and with less invasive treatments. If the diagnosis is later, the chances of healing can instead be “sensibly” and go through a more tiring treatment path.
Aurelio De Laurentiis, honorary president of Komen Italia, also took part in the cutting of the ribbon, emphasizing the importance of prevention. “We must tell women – she said – that a little out of ignorance and a little out of superstition do not do prevention, that instead prevention is the basis of everything in order not to get sick: the disease must not be treated, it must be prevented and to prevent it is necessary to control oneself because sometimes a verdict that can be fatal if taken care of in time is not “. Today and tomorrow the Neapolitans will be able to undergo free visits and instrumental tests for the diagnosis of breast cancer and gynecological cancers, colorectal and skin cancer.
An initiative that is particularly aimed at people living in conditions of social and economic hardship. “It is necessary – said the mayor Gaetano Manfredi – to start prevention activities that are increasingly articulated and intense together with the ASL and the appointed institutions because we know well that Naples and Campania have a big problem linked to the life expectancy that are the lower than the national average “.