27.10.22 00:00
The visit of the Speaker of the Knesset, MK Miki Levy and his wife Nurit Levy, to the mammography mobile of the Vasuta Cancer Society visiting the city of Yavne
The Speaker of the Knesset, MK Miki Levy and his wife Nurit Levy, visited today (October 27) the mammography mobile of the Vasuta Cancer Association in Yavne. The diagnosis and interpretation. On the day of the Knesset Speaker’s visit, the mammography mobile operated for Maccabi health services companies. Throughout the year, the mammography mobile provides service to all health insurance funds.
The mobile mammography activity is designed to reduce gaps in women’s response to performing mammography examinations in the geographical and social peripheries of Israel. Since its activation until today, about 300,000 mammography examinations have been performed in the mobile.
Speaker of the Knesset, MK Miki Levy: “This month Israel, along with the rest of the world, celebrated breast cancer awareness month. Every year 5,500 women in Israel are diagnosed with breast cancer, for whom the fight is a constant, persistent fight that requires enormous mental strength. Early detection of breast cancer and its treatment at an early stage prevents the spread of the disease, Improves the patients’ quality of life and saves lives. The mammography mobile of the Cancer Society makes mammography examinations available free of charge to women from all over the country and makes a significant contribution to the fight against the disease. I would like to thank the Cancer Society for its holy work and strengthen the women in Israel who are in the oncology departments day and night.”
Moshe Bar-Chaim, CEO of the Association to Fight Cancer: “The Cancer Society welcomes the visit of Knesset Speaker MK Miki Levy and Nurit Levy to the mammography mobile, and considers the office of the Speaker of the Knesset a faithful partner in the fight against cancer for the sick and the sick. Since the beginning of its activity, the mobile has managed to significantly reduce the gaps between the various sectors and has made mammography screening accessible to women of low socioeconomic status and women living in the periphery. About 20,000 women perform the test every year in a mobile that arrives in the remote village or settlement where they live. Today, Israel stands at the top of the world table in mammography screening rates, while reducing disparities, and among the leading countries in the rates of curing women from breast cancer.”
Dr. Ward Kleitman, the medical director in the southern district, Maccabi Health Services: “Our goal is to make mammography examinations as accessible as possible to the women of the city and the region, in order to anticipate a cure for Mecca. Periodic examinations save lives, therefore we operate teams that proactively approach women in the target population for mammography examinations, for the early detection of breast cancer. It is important Great in informing the public of women aged 50-74 to perform the test routinely.”