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It is a backed by the city of Lorca in support of the local branch of the AECC initiative, which signs are installed and encourages citizens to use the hashtag #listoscontraelcancer.

Youth Councillor of the City of Lorca, Augustine Llamas, presented this morning with the coordinator of Sun City Scout Group, Pedro Enrique Llamas, president of the Spanish Association Against Cancer in Lorca, Magdalena Lopez, and the President of Youth, Luis Montiel, #listoscontraelcancer awareness campaign.

The head of scouts Lorca explained that this youth group held from 4 to 28 February, a campaign visibility and support to cancer patients.

Specifically, placards out members of this organization with your scarf recalling that "Cancer colon, liver, lung, ... not seen", images that are intended to spread through social networks to be distributed #listoscontraelcancer hashtag.

In addition to all citizens are invited to upload to social networking a picture with this 'label' and a drawing in which some type of cancer is represented by painting over his body an organ on which they may suffer and placing a garment colors the type of cancer you want visible.

For example breast cancer is linked to pink, kidney and leukemia in orange, white lung, pancreatic to purple, green liver, the brain gray, bone and bladder to yellow ... Although there are testicular, uterine, prostate, ...

In this sense, Augustine Llamas congratulated this entity "because once again shows the involvement of young Lorca society, in this case with another group as the Spanish Association Against Cancer, because the February 4 is the World Cancer Day. This is a positive campaign, for the prevention and treatment has reduced mortality. "

However, cancer is a leading cause of death in Spain, but approximately 40% of cancers are preventable.

One in three men and one in four women will be diagnosed with cancer during their lifetime. "

Also, keep in mind that each year are diagnosed around 1,400 new cases in Spanish up to 18 years and, despite being a rare disease, childhood cancer is the leading cause of death by disease until age 14.

The most frequent in children up to 14 years cancer is leukemia (25%), followed by tumors of the central nervous system (19.6%) and lymphomas (13.6%), according to the National Register Childhood Tumor.

However, the survival rate at 5 years 0-14 years has reached almost 80%. "

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca