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Christmas is upon us, that time of the year when we gather once more with our closest relatives over tableful after tableful of holiday lunches and dinners.

Over half the women in Africa (60%) diagnosed with breast cancer find out about it when the disease is already in an advanced state, and over 90% are treated via radical mastectomy.

According to the latest figures from the Spanish Medical Oncology Society (Sociedad Española de Oncología Médica, or SEOM), 7,800 new cases of stomach tumours are diagnosed per year, although fortunately this is one of the few areas where the cancer rate is going down each year.

Approximately 1% of all people diagnosed with breast cancer are men. So, an estimated 300 men receive a diagnosis of breast cancer each year in our country.

This year the MD Anderson Cancer Center Madrid – Hospiten has again joined in with the Movember movement, an initiative now over ten years old that seeks to boost men’s healthcare during November.

Immunotherapy is already a treatment alternative for many kinds of cancer and has achieved major improvements in survival rates.

According to the latest figures released by the Spanish Cancer Association, almost four out of every 10 people diagnosed with cancer in 2018 were less than 65 years old.

Greater precision, and therefore less aggressiveness and fewer side effects.

Breast Cancer Awareness Day is Saturday, 19 October, but the MD Anderson Cancer Center Madrid – Hospiten is getting an early start. Today, Tuesday, 15 October, it’s joining the challenge of raising awareness and helping to prevent breast cancer, which affects over 35,000 women every year in our country.

Each year over 32,500 women in Spain are diagnosed with breast cancer, according to figures from the Spanish Medical Oncology Society (Sociedad Española de Oncología Médica, or SEOM), and most of them will turn to social networks and the Internet for more information after their diagnosis.