October is the month of breast cancer awareness. Health institutions of all over the world invite women to take action to detect any symptom that could lead into breast cancer.
Even with all the campaigns inviting women to prevent it, a recent study made by the Moffit Cancer Center in Tampa, showed that latinas are most likely to get diagnosed in the late stage, having very few possibilities to treat it.
Jeanette Palencia, worker of the center and creator of the program "Yo me cuido" says that hispanic women take care of their family but they tend to leave theirselves at last.
Palencia declarations match with the study that Think Now Research did recently. The study shows that only 51% of the latinas plan to get a mammogram during the year.
The main causes they don't get the study are cost, the lack of insurance and fear. Foundations like Palencia's "Yo me cuido" help women to understand that the earlier the detection, the better.
Via News Channel 8 Tampa
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