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SULLANA, Peru – Health specialists sustain that the breast cancer is one of those causing most death amid women across Peru and the world, but it is also one that can be treated successfully if detected on time, and everything because of the self-test. That is why the Universidad Nacional de Frontera (UNF) summoned the Obstetrician Marco Paulini , our science and public health coordinator, for educating the community about this issue. “It’s important that every woman, since she begins the puberty, get accostumed to watch her breasts, know them very intimately, identifying their normal anatomic shape to determine when it could present an alteration,” he explained. “It’s vital importance to self-test the breasts  to see any change in shape or consistence, touching them too by rubbing them clockwise and detecting any strange bulge that was not there before,” Paulini reminded. “If that happens, the next step is going inmediatly to the health post to discard it.” ...

PIURA CITY, Peru - Breast, cervix, prostate, skin, stomach, lung. The prevalence of cancer cases seems to grow as the economy grows, or at least that is what public health specialists state, based on the improvement of incomes is not providing a better life quality but promoting a bigger alcohol, tobacco, and synthetic treatments consumption, also sedentary and overweight. The improvement of the lifestyle could prevent many of these conditions but any folk says not to have time for adopting it. That is why the Berenson Swimming Academy and the Peruvian League For Fighting The Cancer have joined to launch a cause that consists in promoting the physical exercise as a healthy lifestyle and using it to fundraise against the cancer. The Let’s Swim Against The Cancer initiative  consists in raising 5 soles or 1.5 dollars per every 100 meters or 109 yards to swim. Berenson Academy clarified it is not about a competition but to call professional, amateur swimmers, as well a...