The CSD and the group GEICAM joined to act against breast cancer

Both entities have reached an agreement has among its objectives the dissemination of the benefits of the practice of physical activity, sports and habits of healthy lifestyle among the population to play in reducing the risk of breast cancer and in overcoming this tumour.

Physical exercise reduces the risk of breast cancer and helps patients during the process and oncology, observational and epidemiological studies show a decrease in risk of cancer and all-cause mortality in patients who are exercising regularly.

Madrid, 17 october 2023.-The president of the supreme council for sports (CSD), Víctor Francos, and the chairman of the research GEICAM breast cancer, Miguel Martín, have signed this tuesday, a general protocol for action, with which the two organizations share the objective of promoting sport for breast cancer prevention and improvement of the patients during the process and oncology.

A ceremony held at headquarters of the CSD, both entities have subscribed to its commitment to cooperate in the dissemination of the benefits of the practice of physical activity, sports and habits of healthy lifestyle among the population to play in reducing the risk of breast cancer and take action against this tumour.

“ we are convinced that the union between independent oncology research and cooperative manner, which provides knowledge about the effects of physical exercise through scientific studies, and in the field of public administration in terms of sports policy will help to promote physical exercise as a tool for reducing the risk of this tumour and to help improve the forecasting of breast cancer patients, ” said dr Miguel Martín, president of GEICAM.

Physical exercise reduces the risk of breast cancer, as is the end of the study data EpiGEICAM, according to which the practice of this activity could avoid nearly 14 per cent of new cases of this tumour and that is that the spanish women are sedentary even 71% higher risk of developing the disease.

Those are some of the data that are set out in the act of signing of the general protocol, which had action been taken by the director-general of sports, Fernando Molinero, who has stressed the need for a company practice sports, whether or not in question ”.

According to very rightly highlighted Fernando Molinero, “ the practice of physical activity is health and, therefore, an active population is a healthy population ”.

Giving hard for breast cancer

During the act has been submitted, on the occasion of the world day against breast cancer that marks the 19 october, the campaign to sensitize GEICAM# YoDoyDuroPorEll@swith the institutional support of the CSD.

The campaign YoDoyDuroPorEll@sthis is a call to action for society as a whole through donations to support the investigation of breast cancer, one of the principal means to overcome it. The campaign emphasizes that every minute counts to ask the people who donate minutes of investigation, which will be translated into better diagnosis and treatment more precise and individually.

To that end, the initiative it relies on the actual testimony of two oncologists and two patients with the disease to translate the importance of “ hard ” by patients, through the support of research, through the exercise by giving visibility to breast cancer.

The campaign has involved institutional support patient associations as the spanish federation of breast cancer (FECMA), the association of breast cancer, ovarian and Hereditario (AMOH), the association masculine breast cancer (INVI REGISTRY) and sportive entities, in addition to the CSD, the Spanish sports association (ADESP), the royal Spanish Federation of Karate and Disciplinas Asociadas, the spanish federation of sports and Escalation (FEDME), federació d ’ Esports de Muntanya i Escalation de la Comunitat Valenciana (FEMECV), the Real federación española de Hockey (RFEH) and the spanish federation of Boxing