Started at the end of September 2023, the Mobile Unit's journey in the state of São Paulo lasted until the first half of December.
It took 82 days and 56 days of service, bringing information, detection and diagnosis of breast cancer to the underprivileged populations of Paraisópolis, Itaim Paulista, Taipas, Embu das Artes, Jundiaí, Guarulhos, Ribeirão Pires, Ferraz de Vasconcelos, Potim, São Sebastião and São Bernardo do Campo.
DATA FROM THE AMÉRICAS AMIGAS ACTION IN PINK OCTOBER 2023
Procedures - 5,487
Mammograms - 4,400
Mammography Complements- 551
Targeted Breast Ultrasound - 456
Clinical Exams - 80
PatientsNavigated - 101
Predictive Cases of Malignancy - 101
Breast cancer diagnoses - 26
Average time between suspicion and diagnosis - 26 days
Cancer cases per number of mammograms performed - 1 cancer per 169 mammograms
Probablybenign findings that should be followed up every 6 months for a period of 2 years - 372
Complexo do Alemão is located in the northern zone of Rio de Janeiro, is made up of fifteen communities and has a population of around 200,000 inhabitants.
A partnership between Américas Amigas and Daiichi Sankyo Brasil, the action began on March 8, 2022, and toured the north, northeast and central-west regions of the country, bringing free breast cancer detection and diagnosis tests to around 4,000 low-income women aged 40 and over.
Despite the premature interruption, by March 17, 724 women had received care at the Mobile Unit of the Patrocínio Cancer Hospital, where they underwent free mammography and ultrasound tests.