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How to prevent cancer on children
Early diagnosis and appropriate treatment are key to the cure of pediatric cancer patients. Create awareness on the need for all children everywhere have access to these two pillars of recovery is the objective of the International Childhood Cancer Day, established since 2001 in Luxembourg.
In Argentina, there are wide disparities in access to these rights in different regions of the country. “While the results obtained in the main hospitals of the City of Buenos Aires are similar to those of recognized institutions in Europe, not the case in some provinces,” said a statement from the Natalie Daphne Flexor Foundation, dedicated to fighting disease in children.
To publicize the problem of these patients, the entity carrying out a campaign called “Stay up the shirt,” which invites the entire population out into the street with a white shirt to support children who suffer evil. Simultaneously throughout the country 25 NGOs active in the same struggle join this initiative, which also involve other countries in Latin America?
“Respect for the rights of children with cancer grew a lot in our country in recent years, but not the same thing happens in other Latin American nations, so we seek to be very expansive with our campaign,” said Edith DocSalud.com Grynszpancholc, President of the Foundation Flexor, an organization that assists more than a thousand families of cancer patients of low-income children each month.
The celebrities also joined the initiative, by enrolling in the Foundation’s website can participate in the raffle for an autographed jersey by forward Lionel Messy. In turn, adhere to the cause Fecund Arena actor, singer and cook Axel Fernandez Martini no Molina.
Grynszpancholc also represents Latin America for nine years in ICCCPO (International Confederation of Parents of Children with Cancer); an institution that claims the most comprehensive aid program focus on prevention when prophylactic measures for disease in children “are not possible.” In that sense, they emphasize that the focus should be on early diagnosis, containment and appropriate therapy.
“We need to make in the coming years, every February 15, all dress in white America to show their support to children with cancer and that beyond the socioeconomic conditions of residence and place everyone can access them rights: a treatment in a timely manner, within the best conditions of care, “concluded Grynszpancholc.