“Today is a good day, isn’t it?” Maria Barrera begins a conversation with ABC. This day marks the day he would have turned 43, and also the day he started receiving massive support for a petition he launched last Friday through Change.org, which has already garnered more than 40,000 signatures in just a week. … . “I’m very happy because I was just starting with the 500 that I knew,” says the woman from A Coruña, who was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer a few months ago. Maria, a mother of a 7-year-old boy, decided to post her request after “thinking about it for a long time in my head” to help prevent other women from being in the same situation as her. I would like to insist to everyone that: Mammography examination starts at age 40 That way she would have learned about her illness right away.
«Currently, communities start at the age of 50, and some communities start at the age of 45; Cases are increasing among young women» he says, repeating the data without lies. In the age group 40-45 years, almost 140 cases per 100,000 inhabitants are diagnosed annually, apart from regular control tests. And the statistics continue to grow. “About 15 years ago, researchers began to notice an alarming trend in which more and more young women were being diagnosed with breast cancer. We cannot make this change and maintain the starting age of first mammogram at 50, a decision taken at a time when breast cancer incidence among young women was low,” explains the petition signed by the A Coruña woman.
in your casethe pain, diagnosed as a back problem, worsened over several months. Before being rushed to the hospital, it was confirmed that Maria had metastatic cancer and had already been discharged from the hospital. “I went to the doctor with back pain and was diagnosed with cancer for which there is no cure. It had already spread to several bones in my body,” the mother sums up, explaining that far from throwing in the towel, exercise and her son are giving her the energy she needs to ward off the disease. “I thought I was immortal.” She paused for a moment and reflected, emphasizing that the action she took by hanging her claim meant exposing her family and herself. “I thought about it a lot, but I felt like I needed to make visible something that shouldn’t be,” he defends his claim.
“This is a achievable and necessary change, because if I had been tested sooner, my cancer would have been detected in time and perhaps there would have been an option to cure it,” the petition’s authors acknowledge, echoing claims championed by the international scientific community. For example, in the United States, the protocol raised the age for screening to 40 years. And for Europe, the new guidelines promise to advance screening to age 45 and extend it to age 74, instead of age 65, which currently marks the end of screening. Control for now. Spain’s public health system maintains the first mammogram at age 50 In a healthy woman with no medical history. In Maria’s case, there were no known cases in her family that would alarm her, and she did not undergo an annual medical examination to confirm her late diagnosis. Now, through medication and exercise, He just wants his son to give him a “bearded kiss.”
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