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Breast Cancer Awareness Month Races to Egypt
October 19, 2009
The Suzanne Mubarak Regional Center for Women’s Health and Development and the Breast Cancer Foundation of Egypt is creating a new partnership with Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the world’s largest breast cancer advocacy organization, to create a Race for the Cure at the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt on October 24.
The race is being organized under the direction of First Lady Suzanne Mubarak and supported by different organizations from Egypt and the U.S. Breast cancer advocates from the U.S. and the Middle East will gather in Egypt to increase breast cancer awareness throughout the region.
Dr. Mohamed Shaalan, chairman of the Breast Cancer Foundation in Egypt, said “the week’s events are a demonstration of the cooperation between countries, governments, civil society, advocates, survivors and the global community as a whole. It shows that breast cancer has no boundaries and reveals the beauty of the world’s unity in its fight against breast cancer …”
A series of events will take place during the week of October 21-27, including the training and commemorations in Alexandria on October 21-22 and the University of Florida’s Multidisciplinary Symposium on Breast Cancer Disease on October 24-27.
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