Rotary Club Service Above Self Estoi Palace Newsletter Volume 17 April-June 2017 Mobile Breast RCEPI Newsletter Screening unit 1 AOA MOBILE BREAST SCREENING UNIT Presidential Handover 3-5 Membership 6-7 White Night 8 SPEM 9 Riding for the disabled 10...
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Rotary Club Service Above Self Estoi Palace Newsletter Volume 17 April-June 2017 Mobile Breast RCEPI Newsletter Screening unit 1 AOA MOBILE BREAST SCREENING UNIT Presidential Handover 3-5 Membership 6-7 White Night 8 SPEM 9 Riding for the disabled 10 Centennial Concert 11/12 ReFood 13 Dates for the Diary 14 Event Schedule 15 Four years ago the Algarve Oncology Association (AOA) gave a presentation to the Estoi Palace International Rotary Club (RCEPI) and an idea was born to help them with the pur- chase of a much needed new mobile breast screening unit with state of the art technology. The original vision changed slightly along the way, as the AOA applied for European fund- Rotary Club ing to supply the state of the art equipment, including tomosynthesis which improves Estoi Palace detection rates, and also to fund a research project as breast cancer in the Algarve. The International world average of breast cancer per 100.000 is 55.14 women, the European average is 73.8 women and in th
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