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500 Runners Hit Zamalek’s Streets to Support Egypt’s Breast Cancer Foundation

September 3, 2016
Photo: BCFE Facebook page

More than 500 men and women took to the streets of Cairo’s upscale neighborhood of Zamalek on Friday to run 8 km in the Breast Cancer Foundation of Egypt’s “Globeathon to End Female Cancer.” The Director of Media and External Relations Department Ghada Mostafa said that the Globeathon is an international organization that began holding events to help bring an end to all women-related cancers. It was first launched in Washington, D.C., where it started on a small scale before expanding into a global initiative. The campaign invites various countries around the world to take part by holding a walk in an effort to raise awareness and support for ending gynecological cancers in women. The main aim of the Globeathon international organization is to end all types of cancer that affect women worldwide. September is the month of Gynecological Cancer Awareness around the world and BCFE decided this year to shed light on the types of cancer that mainly affect women. In Egypt, the BCFE will raise many awareness campaigns on its official Facebook page to change the wrong perceptions and traditions still held among Egyptians. “Many patients do recover due to early check-ups,” Mostafa said,…


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