Madrid, 5 March (EFE).-eleven media groups have signed today with the Spanish Association against cancer (AECC) agreement, presided over by the Princess of Asturias, with committing themselves to disseminate in their respective Association first institutional campaign means to involve all the Spaniards in this fight.
Maria Jesús RodrÃguez, Chus, a sick woman who overcame breast cancer two years ago, stars in this campaign – “still more be stronger” – from the stage of Teatro Infanta Isabel in Madrid, where the past January 17 met all the people that helped it overcome the disease to thank them with the interpretation of a song by Coldplay: “Fix you” (“fix you”).
“When you give the best of you, but you do not get result (…), when you feel so tired to continue or can’t sleep (…), when you lose something that you can not replace (…)” It could be worse? “, intones Chus with a thread of voice by nerves and excitement to the public that fills the theater, consisting of family members, doctors, researchers, nurses, workers and volunteers of the AECC.
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“Lights will guide you home and turn in your bones;” “and I will try to fix you,” is the chorus chanting below all of them from their seats, and that, equally excited, wrapped Chús at a time that she has today defined as “magical” and that pays homage both to the 1.5 million suffering from cancer in Spain to all professionals and volunteers who help them.
Antenna 3, COPE, FORTA, IntereconomÃa, La Sexta, Mediaset, PRISA, RTVE, Unidad Editorial, Vocento and Zeta will contribute to spread this message, under the agreement of collaboration with the AECC have signed their representatives after the own Chus nail how won the initial panic about the disease to assume reality and stand up to cancer with the help of the Association.
Responsible for the AECC, Isabel Oriol, Maxim has been the host of this event, held at the headquarters of the Association and in which doña Letizia, President of honour of the Association, has taken the floor to convey to all persons suffering from cancer “that they are not alone and that there is hope”.
“Behind cancer are all: institutions, administrations, health staff, patients, families, volunteers, scientific community and media”, has underlined the Princess, before thank your contribution to all those who, in one way or another, supporting the AECC.
Doña Letizia has also expressed my thanks to those who have enabled this institutional campaign, for which the British group Coldplay has ceded free rights of “Fix you”.
More than 200,000 new cases of cancer are diagnosed each year in Spain, while 40 percent of cancers are potentially preventable with healthy lifestyle habits, such as not smoking, avoid tobacco smoke, limit alcohol consumption, not to expose too much to the sun rays and maintain the ideal through a balanced diet and a continuous exercise weight.
Present in more than two thousand Spanish cities, the AECC is drogadicción status that has over 130,000 members, 15,000 volunteers and 718 professionals who attended free of charge in 2011 more than 60,000 people, including patients and families in hospitals and homes.
