PM Mitsotakis collects free cancer test kit, stresses importance of early diagnosis

PM Mitsotakis collects free cancer test kit, stresses importance of early diagnosis

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Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday collected one of the free home testing kits screening for colon cancer, which have been distributed to persons aged 50-69 in Greece as part of the national prevention programme "Prolamvano". Visiting a pharmacy in central Athens, Mitsotakis emphasised the huge importance of early diagnosis for beating cancer, CE Report quotes Athens-Macedonian
"For us it is very important to set in motion a major programme of preventive testing. This began, as you may remember, with the 'Fofi Gennimata' programme for detecting breast cancer .... a programme that is extremely successful because it allowed us to identify very many women who had early symptoms of breast cancer without knowing it," he said.

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