ROME (ITALPRESS) – Europa Donna Italia is sounding an alarm to the government so that the proposal to extend breast cancer screening for women aged 45 to 74 throughout the country, presented under the first signature of the President of the Social Affairs Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, Ugo Cappellacci, during the parliamentary examination of the Budget Law and supported transversally by all political forces, is approved and not lost.It is an appeal that represents the strong concern-supported by the more than 190 associations of the Europa Donna Italia network active throughout the country-that women’s health is being left behind and strong territorial disparities persist between series A prevention campaigns, in regions where the age range of mammography screening has already been expanded, and series B, in regions where it is only guaranteed from age 50 to 69.”Breast cancer is curable if diagnosed in time,” says Rosanna D’Antona, president of Europa Donna Italia, “which is why it is unacceptable that we do not invest in prevention for female citizens, thus letting real opportunities for salvation escape. The proposed extension of screening would guarantee Italy’s compliance with the European Guidelines, which to date are being disregarded, as stressed also in recent weeks by the Minister of Health, Orazio Schillaci.” “In these decisive hours of examination of the Manovra, politics is therefore at a crossroads,” Europa Donna Italia explains, “deciding whether to invest in the prevention of breast cancer and in women’s lives, or to disregard the promises made for the extension of screening. Europa Donna and all the patients it has represented and supported for more than 30 years, sincerely hopes that an initial opening of 10 million euros for uniform testing in all regions – resources provided by the amendment under Cappellacci’s first signature – are not a cost for this government, but an investment in life.”
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