Preventing is the Key
2019-10-29 15:33:14 / web@radiorebelde.icrt.cu / Translated by: JC Caballero
She was not afraid and took off her blouse and enabled to be watched while being examining.
“I have cancer backgrounds as I lost my mother due to a breast cancer and I have a sister to whom it was carried out a mastectomy.” She told me.
I imagine she does the related and proper monitoring. I asked her.
Yes, it was detected a little cyst in the left breast. I always come to this surgery and all have a solution in time.
This is the story of a citizen from Pinar del Río province who attends to the Breast consultation surgery in Isla de la Juventud municipality where she found a little ball when she practiced the check herself that area and she takes care of herself a lot, ever since.
It is difficult to women to rise the arms and search for it by standing before a mirror and using the hands to feel the sensation about a lump or mass on the breast which could be there and a change of size of shape that could be immediately associated to a cancer.
Once a month, the specialists say you have to examine and attending to a doctor in case of feeling a hardening or swelling in the skin and secretions in a nipple. It is difficult.
The Breast cancer disease in Isla de la Juventud Municipality is the second cause of death, according to doctor, Janny Godoy Suárez, who treats the local women at the breast surgery.
There are 15 to 20 patients who attend each Thursday; therefore, a related monitoring is carried out to them and that include ultrasounds and other procedures to get to know their health condition.
Women are given the first related health care, the specialized one and the resources to guaranteeing their wellbeing there.
There are Breast surgeries at the local clinics and the cancer one at the Héroes del Baire Hospital, along with the professional staff.
Women more than men can suffer from Breast Cancer, especially if they have already family backgrounds and an advanced age. There are some Data that unveils the approximately 40% of deaths by Cancer could be avoided by modifying five risks factors: obesity, reduced fruit and vegetable consumption, physical activity and alcohol and tobacco consumption.
When it is discovered in time, a diagnosis is stablished and related treatments are carried out because of the mortality rate widely decrease.
The mammogram is added to that specialized health care as the most effective exploration method with over 70 % of security as it could reduce the mortality until a 30% after being properly detected in time.
This is the reason a campaign to increase the perception about this dangerous health risk and disease is carried out not only in Isla de la Juventud municipality but also nationwide through related educational talks at schools, neighborhoods and health institutions so that everyone get to know much more about it.
Preventing is the key: the self-examination by wining this battle, living and watching oneself in the mirror and feeling proud on this International Breast Cancer so that there was not a woman who could not feel save from it.
By Jessica Padrón Rodríguez
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