Health will make some 420,000 mammograms in mobile units for the early detection of cancer until 2015.

-More than 142,000 diagnostic tests have been made in the mamobús ”, in the first ten months of this year

-95% of women who in early stage breast cancer has been detected survives after ten years

Madrid, January 2012.- the Council of Government authorized a contract for management of the public service to perform mammograms in mobile units for the next four years, amounting to 11.4 million euros, within the program of detecting early of the cancer of breast of the community of Madrid (DEPRECAM).

The community of Madrid recalls that the implementation of the mammography is the most effective preventive measure for the detection and early treatment of breast cancer. These mobile facilities, Ministry of health guarantees the greatest possible coverage to facilitate the realization of this essential testing, displacing resources environments close to the residence of women recipients of the program.

He has indeed been detected in 70% of cases the tumor in its initial phase. In the first ten months of this year, the programme for early detection of the breast cancer in the community of Madrid has made the Madrid 142.144 mammograms.

In total, it is estimated that during the term of the new contract was made around 105,000 explorations mamográficas year, which are around 420,000 mammograms in the next four years.

More than one million of exploration

The programme for early detection of breast cancer, created in 1998, focuses on the realization, every two years, of a radiological examination of breast to all women aged between 50 and 69 years, ages in which breast cancer is the leading cause of mortality. Thanks to this program we have explored to more than one million women since its launch in motion and 0.5 per cent of them were sent to diagnostic confirmation to a hospital because there was suspicion of malignancy.

Although breast cancer is the tumor over frequent in Spanish women, 95% of the patients to them has been detected at initial stage survive ten years after diagnosis.

In the community of Madrid, about 2,500 women receive this diagnosis every year. Despite its incidence, the mortality rate in the community of Madrid from this disease lies a point below the average of Spain, which is the lowest in the European Union. Thus, in the Madrid Community rate is 17.3 deaths per 100,000 population from the 18.2 in Spain.