2023-10-10 16:04:00
“I only have three words to say to you: “Get screened”. I was affected by breast cancer in 2021. The earlier it is diagnosed, the more chance we have of being treated and recovering from it. heal”, testifies Sylvie Jamet, communications manager at the Eure-et-Loir prefecture.
His speech, followed by long applause, closed a time to raise awareness of breast cancer screening, organized for the first time in the premises of the prefecture of Eure-et-Loir, this Tuesday, October 10, in Chartres.
Pink October: with around fifty meetings scheduled, Eure-et-Loir is mobilizing once morest cancer
Prevention above all
Seventy employees from different state services, the vast majority women, responded to the invitation from Sylvie Jamet and Mathilde Haulon, departmental delegate for women’s rights. A meeting, which was part of the Pink October operation.
The prefect of Eure-et-Loir, Hervé Jonathan, welcomed the participants and sent them a message of prevention:
“The first solution to breast cancer is prevention, which is insufficiently developed. Only one in two women are screened. It is a public health problem. Be a liaison with your work colleagues to talk regarding it. ”
Hervé Jonathan (prefect of Eure-et-Loir)
Christelle Busloup, referent nurse for Eure-et-Loir at the Regional Cancer Screening Coordination Center, recalls that “breast cancer is the most common in France, with more than 60,000 new cases per year, and represents the first cause of death from cancer in women.
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A clinical examination to be carried out from the age of 25
Organized screening, which is aimed at women aged 50 to 74, has existed since 2004. From next year, invitations to have a mammogram will be sent by Health Insurance, and no longer by the Regional Health Center. coordination of cancer screening, whose missions will be refocused in particular on the collection of results, the monitoring of positive screenings and the training of caregivers.
Christelle Busloup adds:
From the age of 25, it is recommended to have a clinical breast examination carried out by a healthcare professional, who may be a GP, a midwife or a gynecologist.
Claude Eschmann, president of the Eure-et-Loir committee of the League Against Cancer, then presented the various actions carried out by her association to support patients.
What are the donations collected during Pink October in Eure-et-Loir used for?
“We receive a lot of people who are often in distress during treatments. We offer them free sessions of yoga, sophrology, socio-aesthetic treatments or even shiatsu. These actions are only financed with donations,” explains Claude Eschmann. “Almost a quarter of our budget is raised during Pink October.”
In numbers
52,3 % of women affected by organized breast cancer screening in Eure-et-Loir had a mammogram in 2022, according to the Regional Cancer Screening Coordination Center of Centre-Val de Loire. The national average is 47.7%.
16.722 mammograms were carried out in 2022 in Eure-et-Loir, as part of the organized breast cancer screening campaign.
115 Breast cancers were detected in 2022 in Eure-et-Loir as part of the screening campaign.
5 km, this is the distance to cover, Saturday, from 1:15 p.m., during a solidarity walk organized by Gym’fit and the CCAS, in Illiers-Combray, for the benefit of the League Against Cancer.
Helene Bonnet
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