The eighth edition of the Pink Caravan Ride, the UAE’s most extensive annual cancer awareness campaign, will take place from February 28 until March 6. The nationwide initiative by the Friends of Cancer Patients, which promotes the importance of early detection of breast cancer, will set off around the UAE on a seven-day mission to offer free health advice and medical screenings to all members of the community.
This year, the Pink Caravan Ride will be condensed and intensified into one day for each of the seven emirates. The ride will travel with highly trained medical teams with specialist knowledge of cancer detection and the most contemporary methods and equipment of identifying or discounting the disease. More than 1.1 million women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year, with 410,000 dying of the disease. Early stages of breast cancer are preventable and treatable, with a curable rate of up to 98 per cent. Pinkcaravan.ae
