Free breast cancer screening month in Heart and Brain, Pleven

Experts appeal: don’t put off your screening – if detected in early stage, breafree screening month in the hospitalst cancer can be cured!

In 2020, 2.3 million women worldwide were diagnosed with breast cancer and 685 thousand died. According to the WHO, by the end of 2020, 7.8 million women are living with a breast cancer diagnosis in the last 5 years, making the disease the most common type of cancer. Every year in Bulgaria, about 3,500 women are diagnosed with the malignant disease. Experts remind that if detected in early stage time, breast cancer can is curable.

Breast cancer affects women in all parts of the world and at any age after puberty, but the number of people affected increases with age. It is especially important after the age of 40 for women to have annual preventive screenings – mammograms and an examination by a surgeon.

The Clinic of General and Oncological Surgery and the other oncology-oriented structures of the Heart and Brain Hospital in Pleven have implemented the most advanced methods for the diagnosis and treatment of women with breast diseases and provide a comprehensive multidisciplinary high level approach.

To book an appointment, please contact the Oncology and Surgery Clinic – visit www.cardiacinstitute.bg or call 064 678400, 02 4026333.

Dear ladies, be responsible to your own health, motivate other women close to your heart to get examined. Do not delay, because time is precious!