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First Lady, Laura Bush, has commended Panama for joining a regional alliance for breast cancer awareness and research

Panama joins the alliance with the U.S., Brazil, Costa Rica and Mexico. The alliance will include sharing information with the University of Texas, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and MD Anderson Cancer Center. The alliance has been named the Partnership for Breast Cancer Awareness and Research of the Americas.

The First Lady spent two days in Panama, meeting with Vivian Fernandez de Torrijos, the First Lady of Panama.

The entire effort of the Partnership effort, announced by Mrs. Bush in July 2007, is to increase breast cancer detection and awareness, to produce clinical resources and research and to reduce related deaths to breast cancer. M.D. Anderson has taken the role of the Partnership’s head medical advisory.

The ceremony was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Panama City. The President of M.D. Anderson, Dr. John Mendelsohn, M.D., stated “We are pleased to have the opportunity to extend our work with the Partnership to Panama. Mrs. Fernandez de Torrijos is commended for her dedication and commitment to reducing breast cancer and her efforts to engage the Partnership for the benefit of women in Panama, across Latin America and around the world”.

This latest information is further sign of the superior medical care and attention to health care that has become a standard in our developing country of Panama. Visit our website at www.panama-land-for-sale.com to see information about living, retiring, or relocating to Panama!