The Association of Spouses of Officers of the Dominican Republic Air Force (AEOFARD) in coordination with the Ramón de Lara Military Teaching Hospital joined the awareness campaign against breast cancer and began a day of conferences that seek to raise awareness among the population to reduce the mortality rate due to this terrible illness.
The conference “Risk Factors in the Early Detection of breast cancer”, was headed by the president of AEOFARD, Ing. Mencía Ortiz de Febrillet, accompanied by her husband, the Commander General of the Air Force of the Dominican Republic, Major General Téc. de Av. Carlos Febrillet Rodríguez, members of the FARD General Staff together with the wives that make up the association and the vice president of the Cruz Jiminian Foundation Alida Maria Camacho de Cruz.
On the day corresponding to this day, the cadets of the Frank Andrés Feliz Miranda Pilot Brigade General Military Academy, FARD, paid tribute to motivate the prevention of breast cancer that included an artistic presentation and continued with the director’s words of motivation from the Ramón De Lara hospital; Orthopedic Colonel César Carlos Coradín Feliz, FARD, who stressed that it is essential to have the necessary information about this disease in order to have timely treatment, while affirming that in Latin America some 400,000 die a year, because they were not arrested weather.
While presenting the content of the conference the 2nd. Lieutenant Medical Oncologist of the FARD, Brígida Cabrera Rodríguez, emphasized the importance of self-examination and medical check-ups for early arrest as the best measure to save lives.
The event concluded with words of thanks from the president of AEOFARD who called on the entire country to take advantage of this free prevention day to carry out the check-up and/or exams that are considered necessary. “The key words here are “invasive” and “advanced” it is where we do not want to go, to become a number of those unfortunate statistics and the only way to achieve it is by carrying out our preventive check-up and always being alert before the warning signs that already we have learned, he concluded.
