Within the framework of the pink month, the city of Barranquilla is getting ready to receive 4,000 people of all ages who will walk this October 23 from the Malecón to honor each of the women who fight against breast cancer every day.
With the hashtag #DaunpasoporlaVida, the event has been taking place since 2015, search encourage women to adopt healthy habits, make self-examination a monthly routine and, starting at age 45, have a mammogram at least every 2 years.
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The agenda includes talks and advice from experts to prevent breast cancer, workshops to learn how to do a self-examination and a medical office where at least 300 free screenings will be carried out among the attendees.
“In Colombia, we carry out monthly preventive screenings with mammograms and breast ultrasounds in women between 45 and 70 years old and in those under 45 if they have any history,” says Mauricio Barreto Pérez, National Head of Risk Management at Coomeva Prepaid Medicine.
It should be noted that during the last decade, deaths from this pathology in Colombia increased by 35%claiming the lives of 22,174 patients between 2009 and 2020.
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According to data from the International Agency for Research on Cancer of the World Health Organization, in 2020 In Colombia there were 15,505 new cases of breast cancer and 4,411 deathswith an age-adjusted incidence rate of 44.1 affected per 100,000 inhabitants.
Even though that him early diagnosis remains key to achieving a cure and that diagnostic times have improved, Many cases with advanced stages of the disease continue to arrive at the clinic, according to data from the Colombian Fund for High-Cost Diseases.
