Love your breasts- Croatia
Average response rate in Zagreb county is around 30%. The project will educate women and general practitioners about the importance of breast reconstruction for women that have their breast removed due to cancer. The average reconstruction rate in Zagreb county is less than 5%. The organisation is proposing a change in the attitudes toward breast reconstruction and importance of taking that decision which will help women improve their emotional life after the treatment.
The organisation will create a community education campaign that will cover every city in Zagreb that has a Health center. Those towns include: Zapresic, Samobor, Jastrebarsko, Velika Gorica, Dugo Selo, Sveti Ivan Zelina, Vrbovec and Ivanic Grad. Each month from September until December there will be an education campaign in two different cities.
The organisation intends to invite experts from the field of oncology, radiology, surgery and psychology to give lectures on topics such as healthy breasts, diagnostics, breast screening and the importance of reconstructive surgery. From March 2010 the organisation will host lectures for non-governmental organisations fighting cancer in Zagreb,in an effort to disseminate information. Tehy will hold lectures for general practitioner in the above mentioned towns so they can attend and refresh their knowledge about breast diagnostic, screening, and reconstructive surgery. Brochures will be printed to cover all the topics of the lectures and issued to every Health center and non-government organisation in the county- as well as at least one local radio or television appearance talking about those topics and inviting women to attend.
The project expects to raise a response rate in breast screening in 2010 of up to 10% and the breast reconstruction rate to 5%.
Organisation
The Croatian League Against Cancer was founded in 1966 in Zagreb, the capital of The Republic of Croatia.The organisation focuses on breast and cervical cancer prevention and treatment. They host symposiums throughout the year on these topics. In2009 they sponsored a Terry Fox Run.
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