MÉRIDA, 31 (EUROPA PRESS)
The Extremadura Health Service (SES) has summoned more than 8,500 women in the region to undergo mammograms during the month of February, within the Program for Early Detection of Breast Cancer.
Approximately 4,700 users will be examined in the mobile units available to this Program, which will visit 18 towns in the region this month. The rest, about 3,900 women from the most populated localities, are summoned to take the test in the Specialized Attention centers of the SES.
As in all SES services and in all social activities, the aforementioned users must follow the norms and recommendations of the health authorities on hygiene and interpersonal distance, such as wearing a mask, keeping distances, extreme hand hygiene, and presenting themselves promptly to the time of the appointment to avoid crowds and not go to the test if they have respiratory problems, fever or symptoms compatible with Covid-19.
The mobile units will start from the towns of Almoharín, Feria and Santa Amalia, and then continue their itineraries in Villafranco del Guadiana, Escurial, Zahínos, Valdehornillos, Gévora, Hernán Cortés, Valdebótoa, Ruecas, Don Álvaro, Vivares, La Zarza, Villagonzalo, Alange, Torremejía and Calamonte, as reported by the Board in a press release.
There are also women from five other small towns, who will have to travel to one of the populations mentioned above to have mammograms in mobile units. This is the case of the users of Valdemorales, Villamesías, Abertura, Conquista del Guadiana and Torrefresneda.
Women residing in urban centers who will participate in the Breast Cancer Early Detection Program during the month of January will be treated in the Specialized Care centers of Badajoz (1,277), Cáceres (772), Mérida (52), Plasencia (300 ), Don Benito (375), Navalmoral de la Mata (167), Almendralejo (230), Zafra (128), Coria (93), Trujillo (52) and Talarrubias (32).
The Extremadura Breast Cancer Early Detection Program, which has been developing since 1998, is aimed at all women aged 50 to 69 years living in the region, and those aged 40 to 49 with a history of breast cancer in the first place. degree.
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