La UMU signs an agreement with the AMIGA Association to collaborate in the project “Breast cancer and physical activity”
scratching the middleoh, it’s been succumbed in the living room Hemenegildo Lumeras of the Campus of thornard an agreement between the University of Murcia and the Murcian Association for Helping Women with ccancer (AMIGA) for collaboration in the project “Breast cancer and physical activity”.
The agreement has been signed by the Rector José Luján and by Catalina Ana Martínez Canovas, president of the Association Amiga.
The agreement highlights the importance “of the exercise fphysical to improve the physical and mental capacity, as well as the quality of life of patients with breast cancer, providing a better prognosis of the disease to people who are undergoing treatment”.
By virtue of this, the agreement pallows the development of a programhealth branch aimed at improving the quality of life and increasing the survival of women with cbreast cancer, contributing in addition to the training of the students of the University of Murcia through this innovative experiencewith benefits that have already been proven throughout experience accumulated. As a result of the agreement, the UMU willá a medical examination adapted to this need, which includes an electrocardiogram, echocardiography and cycle ergometrySo as an appraisal and a planification of the activityphysical that includes Various controls and evaluations.
Catalina Martínez Cánovas has highlighted that the physical exercise promoted by this agreement “improves the prognosis and quality of life of patients, for that’s so important incorporate physical activity into your daily routine”. He said that through this agreement and the activities promoted through it by the Medicine Center of the Dcontribution, and The studies that are being promoted by virtue of this agreement will be very important to deal with this disease with greater guarantees, for which she said she felt moved and very grateful to the University for this renewal of mutual trust that the signing of this agreement implies”.
For his part, the rector José Luján stated that this agreement ratifies that the University of Murcia continues to be linked to the AMIGA Association, renewing an agreement that already existed, where the value of practicing sport to cope with illness and get over it. He added he, addressing at nightpresenters of the AMIGA Association that “you already know that you have the hand stretched out from the University of Murciato collaborate with you in everything that is in our power”while congratulating the Sports Activities Service for their work.
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