In Spain, 36,000 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in 2024. This is an estimate from the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology. This represents 30% of all cancers diagnosed in women. But what is the good news about this? Well, thanks to scientific advances and also thanks to prevention, survival in breast cancer is very high, already around 86%.
So the keys are: prevention and early diagnosis. This is essential. And the greater involvement of all social components in this fight. And in this, the key is financing of private companies, as does The English Court.
Next October 19th is World Breast Cancer Day, and that same day will be the Chain 100 for them, a charity concert with a multitude of artists who They seek to contribute their grain of sand to a laudable fight to eradicate the disease.
The benefits go to the Spanish Association Against Cancer, and the main Sponsor of the concert is, precisely, El Corte Inglés.
Both organizations collaborate hand in hand to find research projects in treatments that end the disease.
The importance of financing to cure cancer
Ester Uriol, is Director of Communication at El Corte Inglés and explained in ‘La Tarde’ the commitment they have to research, financing projects as interesting as the last one: a new personalized therapy for each patient.
“This project would be effective for those patients who have special characteristics and have not been able to respond to conventional treatments. It is rescheduling the patient’s own immune system” he explained.
From El Corte Inglés, they finance this project, since “it is essential that private companies get involved and collaborate. We participate in numerous actions, we are very involved.”
Esther Uriol
“We have more than 80,000 employees, almost 63% of us are women and a large part of our clients are, that closeness makes us go hand in hand to finance these research projects, the only way to tackle any disease. “El Corte Inglés is committed” said Esther.
Something that María Laviña, responsible for Economic Sustainability of the AECC. “We always say that El Corte Inglés, not only because of its economic contribution, makes a 360 collaboration. It involves suppliers, communication, marketing…He has been doing it for many years, “It has focused on research where we have raised two million euros to finance research projects,” he explained.
Maria Lavina
