Aragón has detected 2.766 cases of breast cancer since the screening program began

In Aragon the screening program began in December 1996 and is currently aimed at women between 50 and 69 years old, who undergo a mammogram every two years.

The Minister of Health, Pilar Ventura, urged women this Saturday to undergo screening mammograms in order to detect breast cancer in the initial stages of the disease, a program that has allowed the discovery of 2.766 cases that have been able to be treated early in Aragon. .

Early detection of breast cancer continues to be essential for the application of more effective and less aggressive treatments, thus improving the prognosis, increasing the survival rate and quality of life of women with this disease.

This is the message that was launched this Saturday at the institutional celebration organized by AMAC-GEMA in the Plaza del Pilar in Zaragoza, which was attended by the counselor, accompanied by the president of the association, María José Rivas.

Breast cancer is the most common malignant tumor in women, recalls the Government of Aragon in a statement, in which it adds that the Aragonese Hospital Registry of Tumors (RHT) collects an average of 5.000 cancers per year and that last year Breast cancer was the second most common in both sexes, with 17% of cases, and only surpassed by colorectal cancer, with 19%.

In Aragon the screening program began in December 1996 and is currently aimed at women between 50 and 69 years old, who undergo a mammogram every two years.

Since its inception, 1.120.593 appointments have been issued to perform the screening test, 801.683 mammograms have been performed and, until the end of 2017, 2.766 cases of cancer have been detected, the majority in early stages.

Last year, 71.613 women were summoned (11.470 in Huesca, 7.850 in Teruel and 52.293 in Zaragoza) and 55.291 examinations were carried out: 9.317 in Huesca, 6.783 in Teruel and 39.191 in Zaragoza.