Press Releases 08
“Early Detection Is the Difference between Watching Your
Children Grow up or Having a Life Cut Short. ‘Take It to Heart’
Can Help Make that Difference”
Statement by Ambassador Antonio O. Garza
Mexico City, March 11, 2008 -- “This morning I was honored
to speak at the presentation of the Carso Health Institute’s
new program to enhance breast cancer awareness ‘Tómatelo
a Pecho’ (Take it to heart).
“In the United States, because of early detection and improved
treatment, the five-year survival rate for women who were
diagnosed with early stage breast cancer is 98%, and there
are nearly 2.5 million survivors of breast cancer living today.
It’s time for these advances to be brought to women, not only
in Mexico but everywhere.
“The Carso Institute is about creating hope for each cancer
patient, and their families, to not only defeat this terrible
disease, but to detect it early enough to allow for successful
treatment. Early detection of breast cancer is the difference
between creating big and small memories, all of them meaningful,
or leaving a void in which our loved ones can only wonder
what might have been.
“Later this week, First Lady Laura Bush will be in Mexico
City to formally launch the Mexico-United States Partnership
for Breast Cancer Awareness and Research. Our goal is to partner
alongside already impressive efforts here in Mexico. We are
all focused on the same goal— to give more women more time
to live.”
To read the
complete text of the Ambassador's remarks, please click here
For
more information on the "Breast Cancer – Take it
to Heart" program, click here
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