Lilt Milan, 1,500 visits with the "Nastro Rosa" campaign 2018

Milan, October 31 (AdnKronos Health) – Lilt Milano has offered 1,500 free tours in total at the 2018 edition of the Breast Cancer Campaign "Nastro Rosa", which has registered a particular success among young women, with an increase of + 20% compared to 2017 According to the Milan section of the Italian League of fight against cancer, which traces the balance of the results "really encouraging" obtained in October between the capital of the Lombardy, the hinterland and Monza. "Testifying to the fact – underscores the non-profit organization – that the female population increasingly believes in early diagnosis as a weapon to defeat bad cancer." In addition to the senological examinations, about one hundred consultations of food products were carried out.

For Lilt, "the most interesting numbers are for Polytechnic and Bicocca, where about 300 young university students have made long queues to access mobile units." In addition to the activity of the camper (7 stages), the spaces of prevention of the hen, as well as the normal activities, offered free controls: 5 700 registered monthly services, distributed between 1 061 mammary echographs, 1 888 mammograms between bilateral and monolateral examinations and 2,750 senological examinations ".

"Lilt Milan once again sided with women to raise awareness of the importance of reaching the first" bad cancer "that affects one in eight women during their lifetime, said the president. Marco Alloisio: "The success of the Nastro Rosa 2018 campaign, especially in universities – highlights – shows that we are moving in the right direction and that, since a young age, women have decided to marry prevention to overcome this neoplasia, the more prevalent among the female population ", with 52,800 cases estimated in Italy in 2018 and a growth incidence of 15% over the last 5 years.

"It is already the second year – reminds Alloisio – that during Pink Month we insist on prevention in the age group of 25 to 45 years, for which it is estimated that the increase in the disease was 30% Doubling the normal population It is encouraging to know that, thanks to constant awareness, early diagnosis is becoming a habit of life for all women, but a growing number of women are also witnessing how our prevention centers are located in the area ".