GE Healthcare supported the historic lighting of the Pyramids of Giza. This year marks a significant milestone for the company as it commemorates the tenth anniversary of digital mammography, a breast cancer screening technology introduced by GE Healthcare in 1999. ???GE Healthcare is proud to support this worthwhile country initiative in promoting breast cancer awareness and education in Egypt and across the globe,??? said Richard di Benedetto, GE Healthcare??™s President and CEO for the Eastern & Africa Growth Markets (EAGM) region. ???Through our own research as well as partnerships with other industry innovators, GE is continuing to develop advanced technologies that could help improve breast cancer detection in the future.???

A press event this past Wednesday, Oct. 21 in Alexandria, Egypt kicked off the week??™s breast cancer awareness activities including a Regional Training Seminar on Breast Cancer Support Groups, tomorrow??™s landmark Egypt Race for the Cure at the Giza Pyramids and the University of Florida??™s 15th Annual Multidisciplinary Symposium on Breast Disease. Ambassador Brinker is leading a Komen mission delegation trip to Egypt where 40 U.S. delegates will experience first-hand the state of breast cancer in Egypt as well as in other countries in the region. Joining the U.S. delegation are nearly 30 Egyptian and regional breast cancer survivors and advocates representing ten countries in the Middle East.

Egypt is just one of several countries Komen is focusing on based upon the country??™s need, relative political and economic stability, and the willingness of its high-ranking government officials and many non-governmental officials to work together in building capacity to address its high breast cancer mortality rates.

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