Levante faces Racing de Ferrol this Monday, and the players will wear a t-shirt with the representation of a mastectomy on the chest, with a drawing of a breast on one side and a scar on the other, in a new action against cancer.
In a statement, the granota group reported that it joined the support of women who suffer from this type of cancer and claims research as the only way to overcome this disease of which 35,000 new cases are diagnosed in Spain every year, according to the SEOM. , Spanish Society of Medical Oncology.
In addition to wearing this shirt, Levante, in collaboration with the Match Worn Shirt platform, will auction signed shirts and also those that the footballers will wear in the match, thus raising money with their sale that will be allocated entirely to the AECC, Spanish Association against Valencia Cancer.
Levante has invited representatives of some of the most prominent oncological, social and medical entities in the Valencian Community to tonight's match, such as Sol Zander, psychologist from the Spanish Association Against Cancer and Lucía De Santos, a 38-year-old cancer patient. years.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women in Spain in 2023 and the third largest cause of death from cancer in women and men in Spain. To this day, 6,528 women still die from breast cancer in Spain every year and, according to SEOM figures, 1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer throughout their lives.
