Cancer prevention campaign launched nationwide

Peru’s National League for the Prevention of Cancer has launched its nationwide 2009 fund-raising campaign, which aims to collect funds for awareness and prevention activities and a modern clinic designed to attend to 60,000 cancer patients annually. Across the Andean country, a small “army” of 10,000 volunteers is currently collecting passersby’s loose change – on [...]

Peru smokers to face combined text and picture warnings on cigarette packs

Peru smokers buying cigarettes will soon be confronted with a series of gruesome images showing the devastating health effects of smoking, Peru’s Health Ministry said Monday. The new combined text and pictorial warnings, which are believed to be more effective because people are more likely to remember the damage they are doing to their health [...]

U.S.-based National Cancer Coalition donates half a million dollars worth of pharmaceuticals to Peru’s National Institute of Neoplastic Disease

The U.S.-based National Cancer Coalition has donated half a million dollars worth of medicines to Peru’s National Institute of Neoplastic Disease, or INEN, said Carlos Vallejos, director of the Andean country’s main cancer center. “It is an honor for the National Cancer Coalition to donate these medicines to the INEN,” said an NCC spokesperson, Thomas [...]