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

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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