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The National Campaign for Awareness of Cancer (CAN) aims at raising the public awareness of
members of the community towards cancer and encouraging the public to adopt a healthy lifestyle and
thus prevent themselves from developing the disease. The campaign also adopts a number of promising
developmental projects that will help in reducing the incidence of cancer in Kuwait. Breast cancer is
considered as the most widespread type of cancer, both in Kuwait and elsewhere. If detected early, it is
the most completely curable type of cancer, hence the importance of its early detection. On one hand, it
raises the percentage of successful treatments; on the other hand, it lowers the economic burden on the
State and on the public and private establishments since cancer requires long-term treatment and takes
a great deal of effort and money, if not detected early.
Therefore, the Organizing Committee of the National Awareness Campaign against Cancer (CAN)
implemented the project, CAN MOVE, which aims at setting up, preparing and running mobile units
for early detection of breast cancer. These mobile units will be distributed to the Governorates of Kuwait
to provide the services to the largest sector of the Kuwaiti community. This project is similar to several
projects which were implemented in a number of advanced countries.
| Status | Finished |
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| Effective start/end date | 1/10/12 → 1/04/14 |
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