Prevention Activities

Prevention and detection of breast and genital cancers in mariginalized populations of Cluj, Salaj, and Satu Mare counties

This project developped in partnership with the Ion Chiricuta Institute of Oncology of Cluj Napoca during the period of 1.01.05—31.1.06, addresses a population of 3500 women in rural areas, many of which lack health insurance. Information and education is provided regarding breast self-examination, and women within the target group participate in the screening program to receive pap tests to detect cervical cancer. All services are free of charge. Trainings are also organized for family physicians, who then become promoters of the program.

Prevention of cancer through the fight against smoking

Involves education targeted at ending smoking among children and youth in urban and rural areas, familiarization of groups of parents with the dangers of developing cancer through smoking and then involves them in educational programs, and the creation of non-smoking work places. The program is maintained by psychology and medical students and by grade-school students in their last year.

Partners in this project are the Cluj-Napoca County School Inspector, and the Public Health Department-Service for Health Promotion and the League against Smoking.

Prevention of prostate cancer in disadvantaged populations in the City of Cluj

Addresses men in the City of Cluj-Napoca, between the ages of 50 and 65. The program is offered free of charge. Treatment is provided at the Ion Chiricuta Institute of Oncology in Cluj. The project also promotes extension and improvement of access to health services, and reduction in treatment costs through early detection of prostate cancer.

The Campaign for Breast Cancer Prevention-the Month of October

In this month, throughout the entire country, an action campaign is organized to inform the population about this type of cancer, and a fund raising campaign is conducted. It is also a time of solidarity for people with cancer.

The event is characterized by the lighting of an important building in pink on October 1st, and in Cluj-Napoca this building is the National Theater. On this occasion, a concert or festival is organized that benefits both the participants and the public at large.

The campaign is a pleasure and a success, and focuses public attention upon the difficulties that confront those who are ill, as well as upon the importance of prevention in the fight against breast cancer.

Fundraising

In order to assure the necessary funding for our programs and activities, RCS periodically organizes, among other things, special events.

In the month of April, the society held an exposition of pictures in the Municipal Hospital of Wiener Neustadt and the Erste Bank of Vienna, Austria, in which appeared the valuable works of Cluj artists who have donated to our Society.

In the month of May a benefit recital was organized at the Transilvania Art Museum in Cluj Napoca, with a performance by Edit Fazakas, a solist laureate of numerous national and international competitions. The recital was a remarkable success.

The production of brochures

This is a permanent activity of RCS through which free flyers and brochures are distributed containing information about the prevention and treatment of different types of cancer. At present, the brochures edited are:

• Chemotherapy
  
• Radiation Therapy
  
• Cancer and Nutrition
  
• Things for you to think about
  
• Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
  
• Hodgkin’s Disease
  
• Leukemia
  
• Glossary of cancer terminology
  
• Breast cancer
  

All brochures printed by RCS can be downloaded from the internet (in romanian).