At the presentation of the event, under the motto “Pink is only pink”, there were the Deputy Medical Directors, Isabel Melero and Pablo Gil Martínez, the Director of Nursing, Manuel Ibáñez, the Deputy Director of Nursing, Carmen Nogueiras, the Deputy Director of Management , Óscar Soto, and the Director of Management, Javier Reneses, as well as breast cancer patients from the hospital and their families and several health and non-health professionals.
The Medical Oncology Service diagnoses between 175 and 200 new cases of breast cancer patients every year. “Although the incidence of new diagnosed cases is increasing, the treatments currently applied are more advanced to address the disease,” stated the head of the Breast Unit at the Severo Ochoa Hospital, María José Echarri.
The AECC coordination at the Severo Ochoa Hospital has been carrying out this initiative for six years. With the Zumba Rosa class, its coordinator, Paloma Barba, seeks to make visible and raise awareness, with the help of music and dance and in symbiosis with cancer patients and their families, as well as hospital professionals and the general public, of the importance of early detection of the disease and its prevention.
