The Maria Carvalho Santos Foundation, located at Rua São Pedro 3113, Ilhotas, Teresina-PI, CEP 64001-260, is a non-profit charitable organization that works in the health area in an assistential and educational manner, making communities aware of breast cancer prevention and supporting the social adaptation of the person with cancer. Data from the International Agency for Cancer Research indicate breast cancer as the most common type and the one that kills women around the world. The Foundation develops a permanent work of awareness of Piauí women with lower purchasing power and without access to health plans, ensuring periodic examinations, disseminating information and ensuring access to mammograms. The project presented here aims to acquire a mammograph for examinations in women aged 40 to 69 years, in the poorest regions. The responsible for the use and maintenance of the device is the president of the Foundation, Dr. Luiz Ayrton Santos Júnior.
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