Foundation for women seeks additional budget for cancer care

CONGRESS should consider transferring a small part of the P10-billion confidential funds in the 2024 budget to save the roughly 9,000 Filipinas who die of breast cancer every year, a nonprofit organization said.

Aileen Antolin, convenor of the Kasuso Foundation (Philippine Foundation for Breast Care) said “in behalf of our Filipina sisters who are suffering and whose pain can be prevented and eased, Kasuso Foundation is joining other cancer groups in asking Congress for more funds for early cancer detection and treatment.”

Antolin also said the nonprofit group continues to educate women on cancer prevention and survival.

Every year, around 27,000 new breast cancer cases are found among