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Voluntary work program


The Lalla Salma Foundation has implemented, at Her Highness the Princess Lalla Salma’s behest, a well organized voluntary work program through which she had called for a mobilization that transcends the financial generosity and asks all citizens, those who are ready to share their experience or those who are ready to devote their time, to do good activities for the sake of people in need.

Since 2011, a methodological framework for the implementation of voluntary work program was drawn up and the preparation lasted almost one year in order to launch the first pioneer plan in January 2012 of pediatric Hematological-ontological department (PHOD) of Rabat. Subsequent to the success achieved and the positive echo of the program and particularly its impact on patients, the Foundation started its expansion in many regions of the kingdom with the ambition to the widespread throughout the national territory.

RECRUITMENT PROCEDURES


Registration : visit the website of Lalla Salma Foundation and go to the heading : « become a volunteer » in which an application form will be put at your disposal. Once filled, click on “send”. Request processing: Your request will be processed as soon as possible, and an answer will be sent to your address mail for any additional information related to registration.

Recruitment committee : A recruitment interview will be held with a committee consisting of a member of the Foundation, the program manager, facilitator and psychologist with the aim of deciding the suitability of your profile with the purposes of the Foundation’s volunteer program.

Probationary period : A two-month probationary period on the field will be prepared for you during which you will be accompanied by a “senior” volunteer and you can get in touch with all volunteers by means of volunteer groups on social networks.

Evaluation and the signing of the charter : After going through this basic training, another evaluation meeting is set to assess your work and sign if you are finally approved the voluntary charter. Training : Training sessions will be organized throughout the year.

Cartographie


  • Screening centers
  • the programmed centers
  • the areas of proximity

Marrakech

UHC Med VI, Oncology Center, Volunteer Office

Phone number: 0766177939

Casablanca

Ibn Rochd University Hospital, Mohammed VI Center for the treatment of cancers, volunteer office

Phone number: 0666148848

Casablanca

UHC Ibn Rochd, Hospital August 20, Volunteer Office

Phone number: 0666148848

Rabat

Children's Hospital, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Service, Volunteer Office

Phone number: 0661868675

Rabat

National Institute of Oncology, Volunteer Office

Phone number: 0668831540

Meknès

Regional Oncology Center, Volunteer Office

Phone number: 0661424282

Fès

UHC Hassan II, Oncology Center, Volunteer Office

Phone number: 0697428521

Agadir

Regional Oncology Center, Volunteer Office

Phone number: 0661086141

Laayoune

Tanger

Beni Mellal

Oujda

Tétouan

Kénitra

Kalaat Sraghna

Témara

Midelt

ELIGIBILITY CRITEA


- To be over 18 years of age.

- Do not have other purposes than volunteering.

- To be freely committed to carry out an action in favor of others, self-employed, not subject to the obligation of the law, out of your professional and familial time.

- Knowing how to aptly analyze your practice of volunteering and pointing out any room for improvement.

Reading list

Guide du bénévole
Règlement intérieur du bénévolat

Breast cancer

The breast cancer is very frequent, and is at the top of the list for the cancers that still kill too many women worldwide.

In spite of the research progress which dissected the development mechanisms of most cancers, the causes of the breast cancer are not that well known up to date. Nevertheless the different studies brought to light some risk factors that could favor the breast cancer, and how to reduce this risk by adopting a healthy lifestyle.

  • Risk factors
  • Prevention
  • Warning symptoms
  • Early Detection
  • Treatment
  • Related Links
Breast cancer

 

Risk factors

• The critical period is between 45 and 75 years old. As in most cases of chronic diseases, the risk of developing a breast cancer does increase while growing in age.

• Family or genetic factors: precedents of breast cancer in the family, mainly on the mother's side (grandmother, mother, aunt or sister)

• Individual’s own characteristics: hormonal risk (advanced teenage puberty, late menopause, late primiparous pregnancy)

• Tobacco consumption, excessive alcohol drinking, etc.

• Overweight or obesity after menopause, as only 20 kilos more are enough to double the risk of developing a breast cancer

• Contraceptive pill. Studies proved that the use without prescription nor medical survey of certain oral contraceptives slightly increases the risk of developing a breast cancer for women on the pill for more than 4 years.

• Exposure to carcinogenic chemicals. The fact of being in touch with the chemicals present in the environment (organochloride pesticides DDT, parabens, etc.) could be a pattern for breast cancer, though the causal link is still not clearly identified.

 

Prevention

A healthy-living routine (physical exercise, a sound food including enough vegetables and fruits, quitting smoking, etc.) as well as the preservation of a reasonable weight, all these factors seem to contribute in reducing the risk of most cancers among which the breast cancer.

Breast self examination is recommended, and should be carefully done at least once a month:

- Around one week after period, the perfect time during the menstrual cycle when the bosoms are neither sensitive, nor inflated

- The first day of the month for the post-menopausal women.

If an anomaly is detected while proceeding to the breast self examination, it has to be immediately reported to the family doctor or to have it checked in the closest healthcare center as soon as possible.

 

Warning symptoms

The breast cancer appears mostly by a painless bump first, either in the bosom itself or in the armpit, the other warning signs possibly being:

• a bump or a swelling under the armpit;

• a modification in the bosoms’ size or shape;

• dimples or folds appearing in the skin, thickening or puckering of the skin also called "cottage cheese";

• a flushing, a swelling or an increasing heat in the affected breast;

• an inverted nipple, that means an upside-down nipple turned towards the inside of the bosom;

• a crust or a desquamation on the nipple.

 

Early diagnosis

Besides saving lives, the early diagnosis for the breast cancer can avoid mutilating surgeries such as the total ablation of the breast (mastectomy).

Up to date, the mammography is actually the most effective means to diagnose earlier breast cancers because it screens even small calcifications possibly being precancerous lesions or tumors not exceeding one centimeter and clinically undetectable. The diagnosis is exact in 90% of the cases, and can be completed by a mammary scan to assert the nature of the mammary cysts and to check dense bosoms. If needed, the diagnosis is concluded by biopsies.

 

Treatment

Surgery

The surgery is often the first step for cancer treatment as the act of surgery aims at removing the cancerous tumor. In case of breast cancer, it will be a mastectomy, which can be segmental (only a part of the breast is removed) or total (the entire breast is removed). Quasi systematically, a surgery of the armpit lymph nodes is added. Among other factors, the decision to practice a partial or a total mastectomy depends on the size of the tumor and its position in the breast. The preference of the woman is taken into account too.

 

Radiotherapy

The partial mastectomy is generally followed by radiotherapy in order to destroy the cancer cells possibly remaining in the breast and reduces the risk of a tumor reappearing.

In case of total mastectomy, the radiotherapy is not always necessary.

 

Chemotherapy

To treat cancers, the chemotherapy uses a certain kind of medicines called antineoplastic conscripts. For the breast cancer, chemotherapy is usually administered after the surgery, aiming at destroying the cancer cells which would have propagated from the main tumor. The choice of beginning or not chemotherapy depends on the evolution stage of the disease.

 

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