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The Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC), member of We Are Patients, has launched a new edition of ‘The purchase of your life’, campaign with which citizens can collaborate with their donations until this Friday, 11 februaryto the research and the support patients and their families in the supermarkets and shops from all over the country.
As the AECC explains“”cancer is the same for everyone, but not all people are equal against cancer. Starting from this reality of inequality, actions like’ The Purchase of your Life ‘ help reducing inequalities that exist at the time of prevent cancer, coping with the disease or accessing the results of research”.
401 research projects
The campaign, framed in the events of celebration of the World Cancer Day, is seconded by about a hundreds of signatures that, with thousands of establishments – among others, shops, supermarkets and gas stations– distributed throughout the national geography, will offer their customers the possibility of adding one or more euros to your purchase ticket and thus contribute to improve life of patients and their relatives.
“All donations – emphasizes the Association-will be destined to continue offering free services of support and accompaniment patients and families, and to promote the research. With your help we will be able to improve their situation.”
Consequently, with your donation you will help the AECC to be able to closer never close to 300,000 people that every year they are diagnosed with cancer in our country; that no patient feels alone, unheeded or uninformed; to reduce the poverty 25% of the working population suffering from cancer; to a thousand of researchers to continue their work and the results of the research reach all patients; and to fund 401 research projects against cancer, always with the aim of raising to 70% the survival associated with oncological diseases by 2030.
For more information about the campaign click here.
– To this day, 91 cancer patient associations they are already active members of We are Patients. And yours?
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