This Saturday, the Hungarian League Against Cancer organized a motorcycle parade in Budapest for the 4th time to draw attention to screening and early detection of breast cancer.
Participants marched through the city on motorcycles in a pink T-shirt and accessories (corresponding to the color of breast cancer. The event was hosted by Balázs Rozványi, President of the Hungarian Anti-Cancer League.
Since 1985, October has been Breast Cancer Awareness Month while October 1 is World Breast Cancer Awareness Day. In Hungary, approximately 9,000 new breast cancer patients are diagnosed each year, the majority of whom are women, but men are not prevented from the disease either.
The League also calls attention to the fact that the most common cancer among women is breast cancer! The number of diseases in Hungary in 2015 was 158.7 per 100 thousand inhabitants. More than 8,000 new patients are diagnosed each year, and more than 2,000 (exactly 2,223 in 2016) die from the disease.
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