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The incidence of breast cancer has been steadily increasing. The report that has just been adopted argues that the prevention, early detection, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of the disease must be improved.
According to the WHO, 216 000 new cases of breast cancer were diagnosed in the European Union in 2000, and in that year 79 000 women died of the disease. This is the most common cancer in women, affecting one in nine and is the most common cause of death in women between the ages of 35 and 55. The risk of developing breast cancer is 60% higher in Western Europe than in Eastern Europe, hence the proposal to create, by 2008, the conditions required for a 25% reduction in the average breast-cancer mortality rate in the EU. The Member States are invited to offer all women aged between the ages of 50 and at least 69 a mammography every two years, as laid down in the European Directives on Guaranteeing the Quality of Mammographic Screening, since only eight of the fifteen Member States currently have national screening programmes. All women suffering from this form of cancer must have the right to be treated by multidisciplinary teams. Hence our vote in favour of the report."@en1
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