Pazardzhik Celebrates 25th Cancer Awareness Campaign with Pink Cake and Preventive Examinations

Pazardzhik. This Wednesday, October 14, from 11:00 AM, the Association of Cancer Patients and Friends will open its 25th anniversary campaign to fight cancer. The traditional pink cake is expected to be distributed in front of the oncology center building.

For another year there will be preventive examinations, which will be conducted according to a schedule until the end of October – World Cancer Awareness Month. Leading specialists from different fields will perform examinations. Surgeon Dr. Prokopi Koev will provide free breast cancer screenings. Dr. Teodora Blagova, a specialist in imaging diagnostics, will perform an ultrasound of the breast and thyroid gland for a fee of 10 euros. Dermatologist Dr. Stoyanka Beyska will provide skin cancer consultations, and obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Ilyan Tryanov will perform gynecological examinations with a Pap smear. To register and for more information, people can contact the Center for People with Oncological Diseases in Pazardzhik at 16, parter, ul. “Al. Stamboliyski,” or by phone at 0888/380-308. All examinations are free for people with oncological diseases.

According to the Regional Health Inspectorate – Pazardzhik, registered malignant diseases in the region number 9,660, with 117 children aged 0–17. For 2025, new cases in people over 18 are 588, and in children – 6 (3 boys and 3 girls).

Last year during the campaign, a total of 651 preventive examinations and consultations were conducted, of which 142 were free. This was announced by Maria Chergarova, Chairwoman of the Management Board of the Association of Cancer Patients and Friends and Manager of the Center for People with Oncological Diseases in Pazardzhik.

With the mobile ultrasound device and video printer donated after the campaign and supported by Ekaterina Zaharieva, a total of 459 preventive screenings for breast and thyroid cancer were performed for women and men in 13 settlements. During the campaign, 83 cases of detected pathology were monitored, 64 of the thyroid gland, 18 of the breast, and one woman with breast cancer from the 2025 campaign. Ms. Chergarova thanks all friends of the Center and the Association for their support and empathy.

Source: Zname.info