The Health Village of the Race for the cure which will take place on Sunday opens today at the Circus Maximus in Rome. The sports and breast cancer and women’s health prevention initiative celebrates 25 years. At the ribbon cutting the Minister of Health Orazio Schillaci, the president of the Lazio Region Francesco Rocca, the mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri, and the lawyer Laura Mattarella, president of the Honorary Committee of the 25th anniversary of the Race for the cure and daughter of the President of the Republic. It will be Sergio Mattarella himself who will kick off the sporting event on Sunday.
“It is a great honor to be here – said Laura Mattarella – I believe very much in prevention and I am honored to do a small part of the work that is the responsibility of doctors and operators”. “The US-Italy collaboration project in the fight against breast cancer turns 25 today and we are proud to inaugurate the Health Village at the Circus Maximus,” said Riccardo Masetti, founder of Komen Italia.
“Since my first day at the Ministry of Health, I have put cancer prevention at the center of my mission – underlined Minister Schillaci – Many diseases previously considered incurable are no longer so and I would like to remind you how breast cancer screening is offered by the NHS , but in many regions there is not always support. We must do more of this and I congratulate the Komen Foundation which will take campers for cancer prevention around Italy”. cancer can be defeated and as a region we are working hard on this front”, added Rocca in his speech (Continued)
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