Supporting Pink October: Montpellier’s Merchants and Officials Present Funds to the Medical Cancer Institute

2023-09-01 12:05:00

The elected officials received a representative of the Montpellier Medical Cancer Institute at the town hall to give him the check for the funds collected by the city’s merchants during the last Pink October campaign.

Several merchants from the city were present to deliver with the elected officials, including the mayor Gérard Forcada, the check for Operation Pink October, in which some participated by decorating their windows and selling the famous pink umbrellas, a symbol of the fight once morest breast cancer. Funds that will go to the Montpellier Medical Cancer Institute . Its communication director, Ivanick Chataigné, thanked them for their involvement, while recalling the role of the IMC:“We contribute to the development of Pink October and cancer prevention in general. Pink Umbrellas are a symbol of protection, which can also represent a woman’s breast in order to raise awareness around screening. You should know that breast cancer affects one in eight women. Everyone in his family or those around him knows a case. Unfortunately, only one in two women gets tested. Yet there is 90% cure if this cancer is caught early. Note that it is still 12,000 deaths per year. It is necessary to think of having a mammogram every two years between the ages of 50 and 74, because it is in this age group that 80% of cancers occur. But that should not prevent the youngest from feeling concerned by practicing self-examination which is simple. To prevent is to cure » . The communicator also recalled that the Montpellier research center is one of the eight best centers in France with research that is progressing well:“There are many international-level researchers on the Montpellier site, which is one of the three major sites in the Region. With the new research, we have a major survival gain. At the Chicago conference, we received a standing ovation for our progress. The only difficulty is the long time of research (8 years on average to develop a treatment). It should be noted that on October 26, 1923, the first five beds for the treatment of cancer were established. Today, it is 30,000 patients followed “

. During the last campaign, several associations also mobilized in partnership with the League once morest cancer, such as Plaisir de peinture, a faithful supporter of the action, the MJC and the Espace Gibert. Now for the next one, which will take place soon.

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