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Breast cancer is the principal cause of death among women. In 2000, in Europe, this disease of the industrialised world lead to the death of more than 79 000 people. In Belgium alone, no less than 10 000 new cases of breast cancer and 3 500 deaths are recorded every year.
There is a lot of work to be done. That is why I voted in favour of the report by Mrs Jöns, which is very comprehensive, sometimes too much so, and proposes some interesting routes for reducing the death rate by 25% by 2008. In order to achieve this, the report rightly stresses identifying the risk factors, coordinating national policies and screening programmes.
It is crucial that mammograms are free across the Union for women between 50 and 69. It is just as essential to seek out women who are not so well informed and less accessible. Mobile screening programmes, which have been running Belgium in the province of Liège, for more than ten years, have enabled more than 70 000 people to be examined. So many women who, without the
would not have automatically done the test at a doctor’s surgery or hospital."@en1
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