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A program for early detection of prostate, breast and buccal cavity cancer, is been develop in the health areas of the municipality of Santiago de Cuba, which will be extended to the whole province and reports the first benefits for the population.

When talking about this method, Dr. Francisco Perera Fernández, Principal of the Provincial Cancer Unit , explained that Cancer has been the main cause of death in Santiago de Cuba for 3 years and that 1,746 thousand of persons died of it last year.

He also said that a lost of deaths were because people look for medical help when the disease is advanced, reality that took health authorities to schedule investigations which permit to early detect the condition.

Aiming that, each man over 50 years is visited in every health area. They  have been submitted to blood samples, if any abnormality, are send to receive health care. On the prostate cancer case, 19, 781 thousand men have been visited, 11,242 tests have been made and from these 906 showed abnormalities among which 87 cases were positive for cancer.

None of these persons will die for the disease detected, because the province has the required therapy equipment and all of them are under medical assistance.

On women, 36, 000 thousand over 30 years have undergo breast tests, detecting 15 cases of breast cancer. Also, other five cases of cancer but in this case of buccal cancer were found during the investigation that reached 30,000 thousand people, the specialist added.

The staff in charge of the investigation has an educative function at the same time. They explain the cancer risk factors, how women should do their breast self inspection, as well as using the help given to everybody in the primary assistance units where they periodically can go to have a buccal exam, a Pap smear and the (PSA) blood test to detect prostate cancer.

Our health system has the personnel, the equipment, the medicines and the institutions for the diagnosis and cancer treatment, but our goal is not only treating those persons that go to the hospital with a symptom or a suspicion, but also detect the disease in their homes.

There are several lives that were saved with this method, figure that will increase when
the investigation program extend to the whole province, said the Principal of the Provincial Cancer Unit.

Source: /www.sierramaestra.cu/


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