" However, with sufficient cooperation and by consciously facing the threat of the illness breast cancer can be conquered. Besides the continuous development of science, diagnostic instruments and therapies, continuous and conscious self-examination, living a healthy lifestyle and regularly participating in screenings over the age of 45 – these are the effective weapons in the fight against breast cancer.Breast surgeon Balázs Bodai, who has lived in the United States of America since early childhood, is a professor at the Sacramento Breast Surgery Center in California. During his healing and research work he himself has experienced the favourable relationship between early diagnosis and favourable treatment statistics among his patients. And in the second half of the 90s when writing a lecture he had the idea: how much would the preventative and awareness work be helped by placing the “message” of the importance of the fight against breast cancer on letters and other postal items. The thought was put into action, and in America – as a result of two years of preparation work and lobbying – since 1998 postage stamps have been spreading the news to people of the fight against breast cancer and its importance.The surcharge received as a result of the sale of the “Breast cancer: Give for recovery” postage stamp – HUF 50 per stamp sold – will be transferred by the Hungarian Post to a separate account held by the National Oncology Institute.The stamp shows the goddess of hunting and battle, symbolising with this the struggle against the illness. The female figure with simple lines appears in a coloured environment, as a part of the design you can see the text “ADUNK A GYÓGYULÁSRA!” (give for recovery)."