People participate in a march in Prague, capital of the Czech Republic, June 15, 2019. Thousands of people, mainly women dressed in pink, took part in the 19th Avon march to express support for patients with breast cancer and their families in Prague on Saturday. (Xinhua/Dana Kesnerova)
PRAGUE, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of people, mainly women dressed in pink, took part in the 19th Avon march to express support for patients with breast cancer and their families in Prague, capital of the Czech Republic Saturday.
The march started from Old Town square in the historical centre of the city and ended on Stvanice Island where a cultural program was prepared, including a concert.
The motto of this year's Avon March Campaign is "it doesn't matter what we have on our minds, but what we carry in our hearts".
The Avon Healthy Breast Project is funded by the sale of special pink ribbon products and Avon March T-shirts. Through buying the T-shirts, people contribute to the prevention of breast cancer as well as projects for patients and the assessment of screening data.
More than 7,000 women in the Czech Republic get breast cancer every year and around 1,900 die from this disease in the same period, according to the website mamo.cz, an information portal set up by the Institute of Biostatistics and Analyzes of the Faculty of Medicine of the Masaryk University together with the Czech Association of Mammodiagnostics.
Statistics show that if the tumor is captured at an early stage, the chance of cure is greater than 90 percent. Mammography is an effective and completely safe method of breast examination. In the Czech Republic, about 60 percent of women go through screening mammography examinations every year, according to the portal.
