“We are all survivors of this disease, and we decided to organise in order to help other people who have limited resources. Imagine that someone who doesn’t have 300 lempiras (about 16 dollars) cannot get a mammogram, and could die as a result,” Ingrid Castellanos, president of the Honduran Foundation Against Breast Cancer, told IPS.

For three years, the Foundation has led educational campaigns, forums and walks to bring attention to the issue and raise public awareness about this form of cancer.

“In the public hospitals, because of budget restraints and quotas, there are patients who are found to have malignant tumours in the breast and they have to wait five or six months for treatment — very valuable time that could mean it’s too late for these women,” said Castellanos…continue IPS news article here.