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"All women Archena Township, aged between 50 and 69, should have a mammogram," this is the main message of the campaign that another year has launched the Public Health Department, City Hall Archena and the Association Against Cancer.

Since yesterday, Thursday, and until 26 February this year, a mobile unit will be installed on the doors of the Health Center Mario Spreafico 'Archena to perform 1,577 mammograms to the women themselves cited between 50 and 69, residents in the municipality.

Either way, sources said Directorate of the Ministry of Health have announced that if any woman who is within that table of age or who has completed two years have not been back to make that mammogram and none of the cases have received appointment letter, "should contact the Health Center."

For technical specialists in the autonomous region, "these films that are made enables us to diagnose breast cancer early."

Those same sources say that the participation rate Archena during 2006 and 2007 was 83.2 percent, while the regional rate is 71.2 percent.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Archena